Advertising is becoming more and more common in everyday life. Is this a positive or negative development?

People

have different views about advertisements and their effects. Nowadays they are ubiquitous so that

people

can come across them everywhere and I believe that

this

development is very negative because of two reasons.

Firstly

, they tend to make

people

buy the latest things

such

as clothes, even though they do not want them to them affordable.

Ads

are often manipulative because they are usually made interesting by adding special effects , so they can easily affect

people

's choices.

This

, in turn, results in a huge waste of money for consumers as they immediately try to achieve instant gratification by getting the products advertised, but are likely to regret it very soon

due to

poor quality.

For example

, I recently bought shoes online, about which I had got information from

ads

placed on TV and

then

it turned out to be a bad decision since the shoes were not as good as they were expected to be.

Secondly

, advertisers often aim their marketing at

children

. The main reason is that most

children

can be easily influenced by

ads

,

although

they are nothing but flashy.

Children

,

for instance

, may watch an ad about an interesting, yet expensive,

toy

and immediately pester their parents to buy the

toy

. Of course,

this

causes some financial problems for parents, who have much pressure without toys too, like providing food for their

children

. Worse, the

children

are likely to use the

toy

for a short time because they will probably watch television again and see another

toy

advert. If it happens many times, it often causes some health problems for parents,

such

as stress and anxiety. In conclusion, the increasing popularity of

ads

is harming both adults and

children

.

Therefore

, I feel that

this

has been a very negative development since it started.