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Advertising is essential Advertising is out of control
Debate Score:6
Arguments:8
Total Votes:6
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 Advertising is essential (4)
 
 Advertising is out of control (1)

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Advertising: Do you think it should be so widely used in our society?

Do you think advertising should be so widely used in our society?

It seems to be that everywhere we look there is some form of advertising trying to persuade us toward a product or idea. On the other hand, how would we know what products or ideas were out there if not for advertising? Consider the idea of advertising and whether or not you think it should be so widely used within our society. Choose a side and argue your point (at least 150 words).

Advertising is essential

Side Score: 5
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Advertising is out of control

Side Score: 1

It's absolutely vital; how else does a business announce to the world it exists? How does it get the word out about its product/services? Marketing, that's how.

Side: Advertising is essential
logicaljoe(529) Clarified
1 point

I do agree that some advertising is vital and necessary OBVIOUSLY. But not to the point where it intrudes with our lives and we can't no longer decide and choose to avoid the bombardment and constant attacks of ads everywhere.

I mean cheesus, i have to unbury myself in some sites due to 4, 5 spam ads covering my screen.....how the hell is anyone supposed to see what they want with a dozen ads plastered all over the screen and u gotta play stupid little games to find the x and beware cuz there are some fake x's that u click and it opens up 3-4 more ads. It's a fucking maze LOL.

Side: Advertising is essential
HighFalutin(3402) Clarified
1 point

Re:"I mean cheesus, i have to unbury myself in some sites due to 4, 5 spam ads covering my screen.."

You need to quit visiting those porn sites. LOL. Just kidding. Advertising is the price of free for the Internet viewers.

Side: Advertising is essential
1 point

I've seen anti-advertising debates on all the different debate websites over the years and I just don't understand what they're trying to achieve with them. Advertising is communication. Period. You can choose whether or not you want to buy what is advertised. If you or your family are too weak to make good choices about what to buy then that's your own problem, it's not a reason to diminish or ban advertising.

If you get annoyed with the quantity or length of ads then stop watching, turn down the volume, read a book, whatever. If you see false advertising either report it or just refuse to give your business to it. This doesn't need to be hard.

Side: Advertising is essential
1 point

As someone who minored in Marketing and Advertising, I can say that advertising is at times almost too effective for companies not to use. Proper marketing and advertising is essentially an unconscious manipulation of consumers to influence them into purchasing certain products or services.

The reason it's so prevalent, is because it works so well. Why would companies stop using a system that works?

Side: Advertising is essential
1 point

It's fucking out of control but we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of it yet. This is only the beginning. This is what it means to be a slave. Whatever we do, wherever we go, whatever we see, hear, and experience is all going to be surrounded by and controlled by advertising.

The internet used to be a much freer place than it is now. Today, I can't watch a freakin video anymore without having 30 seconds of my life wasted each time and there's no choice. Sometimes, I play along and I'm a good boy and sit there and watch the fucking ad but then the actual video that I waited to watch fails to load or run and I just watched a 30 second ad for NOTHING. Now I have to watch it again because I'm reloading the video to try it one more time.

Isn't interesting that ads never fail to load but the actual videos we want to watch always seem to magically not work? Have you not seen the job they have done to us? It slowly crept in. It used to be like 1 ad per 4-5 videos. Now it's every video. It used to be you only watch 2-3 seconds and then can skip/close. Now most of them are mandatory to watch all 15-30 seconds of it. They have slowly warmed up the water and we have accepted it because they did slowly and gradually so that we wouldn't notice the difference....we've been conditioned to accept whatever they want to fucking put in our faces. And this is only the beginning. Can't people see that all humanity is becoming is a number? We are slowly becoming nothing but consumers and numbers and stats. THe more they can advertise to us, the more they can make money and keep us slaves as consumers to keep spending and working spending and working for things we don't need and spend when we don't even have the money to spend it (ie debt), it's a reckless cycle, but it keeps us as slaves because nobody is a greater slave than when you are in debt....you have no power when you are in debt and they got u right where they want you....to keep running that wheel like a hamster in a cage until you die.

Side: Advertising is out of control
logicaljoe(529) Clarified
1 point

when we are in debt, we can't just print fake money....but when the gov't is in debt they can print fake money from the air......and when corporations go into debt, they get bailed out, but if you or I go into debt, we're fucked and have to work ourselves to the grave to survive. Slavery I tell you, slavery is here and real. They only want you to think there's is no slavery today because blacks are free LOL.

Side: Advertising is essential