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It's Not Just Online

Comment comment by gnifyus on 17 March 2008

I have to pick up the mail for my workplace from a P.O box every day, and without fail I will see a person go to his box, take the mail and immediately walk over to the recycling bin and throw half of it in without anything more than a cursory glance to be sure it's junk mail. This is in small town of about 3000 people and I've never been in there where someone wasn't sorting their mail into the trash. They print it, send it, and recycle it over and over. Bales of it.

I am at the point where I literally do not see ads on the internet no matter how glaring they are, and I can usually X-out of those annoying "floating ads" that traipse across my reading space on some sites before I even see what they are. It's almost as if my immediate peripheral vision has become trained to ignore.

In the case of many TV ads, I'm finding that I have no idea what product was even being presented as they attempt to be new and different in their advertising approach.

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RE: It's Not Just Online by Anonymous :: NR0

n the case of many TV ads, I'm finding that I have no idea what product was even being presented as they attempt to be new and different in their advertising approach.

I certainly know what you mean. In the competition to make ads that are new and different the message is often lost and we are simply having our time wasted. At least effective commercials subsidise programs, but those that aren't just bore us for no reason.

We have become desensitised to unwanted crap being thrust at us, and that is a more comfortable condition than expecting truth and being disappointed. However, consider for a moment that in the process you have been de-sensitised to having people lie to you. Is that really a good thing? Haven't we a right to expect other people to be honest with us, and if they are not, for us to relegate them to the category of those who can't be trusted and should not be listened to.

Sure most of us reject commercials routinely, but we don't seem to hold the perpetrators accountable. We have lowered our standards.

I expected more responses defending the income Omninerd gets from these ads as justifying the crap. I even expected some to not understand my objection because this sort of thing is so prolific. Who cares? No one takes it seriously and why should we be different?

I think we should care and try to be different because we are seekers for the truth.

Right. It is not just on-line, all advertising has the same low standards but on-line seems to attract the worst, probably because reputable media outlets avoid the bottom dwelling scum out of concern for their image.

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