Advertisements are every where, travelling by all ways possible, infiltrating the privacy that every person holds important to themselves and their family. Ads may travel inconspicuously, while the final message they deliver trough radio, TV, or billboards, is a harmful nuisance, and one that may root itself unscrupulously into the unconscious minds of honest people. Companies have taken, on such aggressive promotional measures that advertising has become degrading, disruptive, and destructive.
One of the most corrupt forms of advertising comes from cigarette companies. Tobacco advertising increases young people’s risk of smoking by using themes that appeal to them, such as fun times, action, and being popular and attractive.
Visual product promotions may not only corrupt viewers, they may also be financially destructive to the communities surrounding them. A billboard can negatively impact the visual character of the area as well as financially lower the surrounding property values. Local economics don’t suffer when communities control billboards. Negative aspects of billboards greately outway the very few, positive, economic upturns a sign may provide an increase in profit for one individual business, but in turn will cause a much greater loss in local property values and visual pollution. Visual pollution is the obstructing presence of objects that do not compliment their surroundings. These include stratigically placed advertisements on roads and highways that hinder the aesthetic beauty of consisten, natural surroundings.
Not only can advertising be destructive and degrading, it can easily be disruptive. Annoying phone calls may not be considered a dangerous manace, but they do severaly disrupt the daily flow of business and personal life. The feeling of invasion is commonly felt when a telemarketer interupts a family dinner, or disturbs a Sunday afternoon. The phone call becomes an intrusive cloud that no one cannot hide from.
There is no purpose for an advertising operation so aggressive that it braches the privacy of the Indian home. This type of disturbance indicates corporations are stepping over the boundaries.
When people do nothing to stop the actions of telemarketers, it indicates that control is lost and that this sort of aggressive advertising is accepted. It is the lack of rigid control over ruthless telemarketers that implies society has been completely enveloped into a world of infinite, disruptive, worthless persuasion.
E-mail has created a new form of quick, reliable communication, but recently has been shadowed by another form of trouble some advertisment, spam e-mail. Spam has increased so drastically within the past few years that it has created a burden that affects almost any person with an e-mail address. It has even come to hinder the very foundation it was built on.
Spam has elevated product promotion to a different level where quantities are so tremendous that they block all potential of decent communication. E-mail boxes are so often emptied without the content being reviewed that the advertising e-mail has already destroyed the opportunity of being effective and now poses a hindrance to the efficiency of the entire world network.
Perhaps if the nation depended on a much weaker economy, such aggressive advertising could be relevant even if it destroys the prevacy of individuals, the beauty of the nation’s landscapes, or attempts to promote unhealthy habits among children. Some view billboards as nothing mor than a harmless structure of posts and panels.
Many believe that sings are necessary to provide consumers with the perpetual temptation of newer products. It is understandable that entrepreneurs want to make money, but morally, these aggressive actions by companies should not be endured even if the economy did make a turn for the worst, and they certainly should not be commonplace now.
Aggressive advertising is an infestation of termites knawing at the honest framework of society. Much of the work in promoting products involves a dishonest form of thinking, and one that strives to root itself into the next generation. Advertisements have infiltrated almost every part of the nation and have manipulated the very core of society. Corporations have been to the extremes of advertising only to create ads that disrupt, degrade, and destroy the quality of life.
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