Some people say that advertising is extremely successful at persuading us to buy things. Other people think that advertising is so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Some people feel that advertising is very effective at influencing consumers’ buying decisions, while others claim that it is so commonplace and

as a result

cannot draw people’s attention anymore.

Although

social

media

has made advertising more common than ever before, I think it is still extremely powerful because it creates

desire

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a desire

the desire

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for the products it is selling. On the one hand, it can be argued that social

media

platforms feed users with tremendous amounts of advertising. On these platforms, there are endless advertisements. What’s more, even the pictures and videos that influencers post about their daily lives can be a promotion of a certain brand. As a consequence, people may become very insensitive to what those advertisements and promotional posts are saying and just scroll through their feed as quickly as possible.

However

, I disagree with

this

argument because if advertising on social

media

didn’t yield sales, some social

media

companies and influencers would not become so wealthy.

On the other hand

, it is thought that advertisers are very good at planting a seed of

desire

in consumers’ minds.

For instance

, Many lingerie manufacturers use sex models in their commercials to send women the message that if they wear their lingerie, they can be as sexy as those models. The message arouses their

desire

to become more attractive and

as a result

, they purchase it even though they do not need any. I agree with

this

opinion because I purchased many unnecessary things which I wouldn’t even have thought of buying if advertisers hadn’t planted the ideas in my head. In conclusion, while the overwhelming amount of advertising on social networking sites may make people immune to it, I believe it is still very effective because it creates the

desire

in consumers to buy products.