Advertising has always been the most common way to get people to buy something that you want to sell for your own profit. For many years and more to come advertisers have come up with so many different ways to market products so that people will have a craving for these items. They use magazines, bill boards, commercials, movies, entertainers and an assortment of other things that they know will influence us to go out and get these products that we just must have and can’t do without. They make it seem as if you will be invisible without these products. We all know that everyone wants to be seen by somebody and god forbid that no one pays attention to them, that’s almost like social suicide, so we go get these items even if we spend a whole paycheck doing so. The ad agencies have already thought this out; this is how they know these ways will work because advertisers know how to play on people’s insecurities and their need to fit in with their surrounding society. They know all they have to do for girls is make it shiny, sparkly, and pink and girls will kill to get their product. They use this method on guy to, they know that all they have to do is make it manly, strong, and a chick magnet and they will pay top dollar and more to have it something that another human being doesn’t have. If you think about it kind of makes us look like sad individuals, followers and insecure human beings. When you really read into it advertisers basically are say to us in their marketing schemes “you can’t think for yourself, you need me to tell you what’s hot and what’s not.” Ad agencies are basically calling us a bunch out idiots and we let them because we want to be cool. Don’t get me wrong I feed into this same ad schemes just like the next person. I go out and see something hot and I instantly have to have it. The only thing about me that different from the next is that I have thought this over and I am trying to make changes to better myself. So I guess the moral is just do you. I know it sounds like an ad.
lashante moody
When you actually think about what you said, you are right. If it is shiny, pink and sparkly girls are all for it, regardless of the price. I am the same way, espically if its a new coach purse. PKV
ITS CALLED FADS AND IT TOTALLY WORKS.
PIERRE
I agree with PK, Lashante. We’ll talk about this in class if we can. Sometimes the “girly” version of things costs more than that plain old manly version. Nice post.