My Take on Feed - the 1st 40 pgs.

The book is quite interesting so far and ties in nicely with the article, "The Making of a Media Literate Mind." As far as character development, at this point we don't know much about the 3 girls that came on the Spring Break trip to the moon. I would say that their personalities, like that of the boys, are similar to typical modern teenagers. The emotional hit that I clearly get from all the characters is that they are not at all happy in their lives. It's difficult to say whether the constant ads from their brain feeds is the only source of their unhappiness or some other factors are involved. One thing is clear though, their feeds are at the very least, distracting, unsatisfying and not "real" in their lives. At worst their feeds are highly toxic to their emotional well being and possibly causing irreversible harm to their psychological health.
In feed speak, the ads seem to be nonsense, valuing empty unimportant things, as opposed to good, real values like family, love, god, nature and respect. The teen speak also seems to diminish their humanity. For example, although they seem to be aware that their lesions are bad, they regularly pass them off. The "frame the face" idea that Violet puts forth sounds just like an advertising agency's view, while at the same time being the most empathetic thing any of them has sid so far.