Advertising, its running rampant around this age. Advertisements are so strongly influential that it can raise a particular business over 50%. What then, makes ads so influential that it has such an effect in society? Advertisements tell about how great and grand a product is, shoving the fact that it can make a person strong, have recognition, look beautiful or striking to get attention, become rich and powerful, so on and so forth. This, of course, are all lies. Drinking a bottle of Coke doesn't make a person look like Brad Pitt nor does Kaspersky make you play badminton as well as Lee Chong Wei, not forgetting the fact that Lee Chong Wei doesn't go around smashing viruses to his opponent's court. Yet, amongst all else, even though most people do keep that in mind, why are advertisements so convincing? That, will be continued below.
Advertisements are something, that could be said as to be able to brainwash people, playing with a person's mind and then.... *Poof!*. I-must-buy-the-product virus installed into person's head. Advertisements has such a wide reach that it covers the whole surface of this blue-green planet of ours. Pay attention to it and therefore, thou shalt be like the above stated, having a mind, blue with Advertisement Viruses inhabiting your mind, digging, deeper and deeper into every single neuron in your brain until you become an advertisement yourself. Just kidding! That part wasn't true, about the virus and all that, but the way it works, is kind of more or less the way I stated it. You see, the way ads work, it makes you buy the product, lets say like a Quiksilver shirt. You wear the shirt, which has- obviously in VERY LARGE WORDS - Quicksilver printed in diagonal across the shirt from corner to corner in striking colours on a plain-white background. Guess what happens next? Everyone you walk past, might or might not look at your shirt and the words "Quiksilver" gets imprinted in their puny little minds and then the go about thinking "Quiksilver, Quiksilver, Quiksilver" and they get the same T-shirt as you. Repeat the cycle. Amazing isn't it? You become a walking advertisement and you are not getting paid for it, yet you are paying FOR it.
Scary isn't it, these facts and yet we ask and comment about advertisements that are loitering around us in square, virtual screens called televisions or computers. Ads play a role in a society, which is to make and earn money any more. Despite how much Disney tells society that they are making cartoons for the kids, the fact remains that they are only wanting to make, money, money, money and fame, fame, fame. Therefore, I urge you friends, to think twice before getting something which you want and not needed or required before you become a mindless, walking advertising zombie in the midst of society, in your country! Advertisements are around you, learn to abhor them but have your own view and perspective and everything and get only what you need, asking opinions from the experts and not from the influence of advertisements that are floating about the air.
If only advertisements came with a warning label which says "Beware, might cause influence", society would probably be better than what it is. Think twice, be nice.
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