I personally don't appreciate or value a website that contains more advertising material than it's content. It seems almost inevitable that in this fast paced, consumerist world, that advertising is intruding more and more into our daily lives. Though as it intrudes, some of us reject it.
For those of us who think that advertising is just billboards and promotional flyers, and it is very easy to think so, you are yet another sheep whom the wool has been pulled over their eyes. Advertising in the 21st century is changing as fast as we can keep up with it. TV, Radio and print media are all saturated in it, not to even mention media/news on the Internet. Whenever you do a google search, on the right hand side will be ads. Small and subtle, but still adds. Google can now track your search history if you are a subscriber to some of their other services, thus making their adds more 'tailor made' to suit your desires (and more importantly, theirs). Anything free on the Internet will come with adds, guaranteed. (If you do find a free site without adds, let us know!) In movies, corporations will pay to have their products/logos displayed. An Apple Mac book or Dell will be the choice of computer for the computer detective, and the hero's drink of choice will be either Coke or Pepsi. As technology evolves to the point where you can block the adds that appear on your TV screen, advertising agencies will only use different methods to make you buy a product. This innovation, is aimed at trying to sell us a product, without us even knowing it is being sold to us.
Sp it seems that wherever we move now days, something is trying to be sold to us. When creating this blog, I was encouraged to put adds on it. So I ask, am I writing the content, attracting an audience, just so a product can be sold to them? While we may be able to accept what is occurring, I believe that knowing why and how we are being encouraged to buy is is the key to knowing when something is being sold to you.
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