I’m tired of being advertised to. Every step I take, show I watch, or web page I visit wants to sell me something, and I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Well, I just realized that if I want to stop all this advertisement I am going to have to move to Wyoming and go off the grid. In our society, it is impossible to dodge an ad for some particular product every day. When I log onto Facebook the ads on the sidebar are not only there but geared towards me. When I watch a movie or a TV show even if I fast-forward the commercials, (I do because I have DVR ) I get nailed with product placement on the show if I notice it or not. You hear people discuss big oil, or big tobacco, or big insert large company here, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone talk about big advertising. Government has rarely regulated advertisements, and when they do it’s something we all can agree on. I think we are all on the same page as saying cartoons shouldn’t be selling cigarettes to children, but are we all on the same page saying cartoons shouldn’t be selling sugary beverages to children? Aren’t those sugary beverages almost as harmful as smoking in the long run in the child continues to have the unhealthy diet, but you generally don’t hear the same out roar over Kool-aid bombarding a child with ads as you did when Joe Camel was being awesome (but an adverse side effect of this awesomeness was children wanted to smoke too). I think as a society we should also be aware and regulate, to an extent, what ads can say, where they can be, and how often they can be there.
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