Creepy Advertising
Creepy advertising occurs when advertising becomes provocative or intrusive (Wikipedia web). Consumers have repeatedly shown a strong aversion to advertisements that surface in almost all places and often also watch the consumers' movements. It is difficult to draw different lines today because there is too much room for businesses to distribute their commercials. Some ads are funny, some are in poor taste, some are just weird does the content make a difference? In most instances, the content of an advertisement makes a significant difference. Adverts with explicit images such as those containing blood or almost naked bodies are distasteful.
Impact on Individuals and Free Speech
Do ads affect you? Do they affect your children or your friends? What about free speech - where do (or should) advertisers be limited in posting ads? Adverts affect everyone as they encourage one to purchase or try out a certain good or service. Children are especially impacted by adverts considering that they are vulnerable to the flashy images and videos. Advertisers should be limited to posting adverts in public places away from private places such as toilets. The ones on television and other audio-visual sources should be limited to certain times.
Types of Advertisements
Question 2: A promise advert always provides a promise for value or a particular benefit that the consumer would obtain through the use of a particular good or service. For example, a washing machine that remains gentle enough for the sake of the clothes belonging to an individual. On the other hand, an identification ad helps a potential client understand a certain feature. For example, a washing machine that uses bubble technology. The advert would go ahead and identify the benefits of the bubbles.
Fallacious Reasoning in Advertising
Question 3: Advertising brings about the type of fallacious reasoning known as unrepresentative sample. In this case, reasoning is based on a sample that is too little and unrepresentative in nature. For example, advertisements may use only one celebrity and insist that since they are satisfied, everyone else who uses a particular product should have the same experience. Advertising also creates straw man reasoning where a product is represented as superior to others. All advertisements aim to represent some form of superiority of a product and that is why people hold the same reasoning.
Work Cited
Wikipedia. “Ad Creep.” Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_creep Accessed 28 November, 2017.
