#BlogTwo AdvertisementCollage

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My Advertisement Collage ~ Blog Two

Within my next post, you will see a collage of many ads that I have encountered during this week. I was asked to answer how I felt when being faced with these ads if I was overwhelmed and bombarded with these ads on a daily basis. In my opinion, my answer would be not necessarily. Although I like to believe that I have a good understanding of when and why I am being advertised I do not acknowledge advertisements on the daily. This is partly due to me being occupied with my thoughts or tasks, as well as the normalization of advertisements. Furthermore, I believe seeing an advertisement before a video, between social media posts, or on T.V one tends to acknowledge them more. This type of advertisement breaks up our viewing of said media leaving us to notice them and usually causing us to be irritated and annoyed by them. Yet, Advertisements that we see everyday outside of digital media, such as billboards, flyers, posters, advertisements on buses etc, aren't necessarily breaking the rhythm of one's day. As you can see within my collage I have put mostly digital advertisements. Although I have more than likely been exposed to more than just digital ads with my week, the ones I most noticed and took pictures of were ones seen when viewing media online. I believe we have grown desensitized to this type of advertising, not that these advertisements don't necessarily work for us anymore, rather we have grown to expect them as a daily occurrence and understand that they are always there. This being said, I believe that the formerly noted type of adverts are also becoming more of an expected occurrence within our daily lives. Overall, although all previously stated is opinion-based, to say I feel overwhelmed by advertisements invading my daily life would be false. To put it simply, I think that, although in some ways unethical, advertisements of many forms have become a part of our daily lives. To put into consideration that advertisements have been around since the 17th century, it is more than understandable that we get more and more used to them.