Advertisements' Manipulation on Teens Today in Society.
Advertisements' Manipulation on Teens Today in Society. Teens today, who watch television, listen to the radio, and read magazines and newspapers see, hear, or glance at advertisements. The business men and women behind the creation of the advertisements make millions of money because of consumer ignorance in the product that is shown or said about in their presence. However, teens are just human beings and are not perfect in society. The business people know how to attract its teen audience for their product. For instance, beautiful women seen in advertisements indirectly attract teenage men into buying the item. Famous celebrities who support a particular product. Older men who catch teenage girls' eyes when the older men holds out the product. The advertisers are the mind manipulators for teenage consumers today. The commercial advertisements shown on television gives the teenage viewer an indirect position of what the business person is selling. For example, the Nike commercial which normally shows a notable basketball superstar dunking for the purpose of selling shoes and apparel also, shows at the end of the commercial, "Just Do It". This message which can cause serious detours in a young teenager's
The commercial ads sometimes influence the mind of the teenage consumer by selling the consumer something useless and not needed by the consumer. One of such a product is clothes, when watching a famous celebrity put some fashionable clothing on, teenagers automatically think that the clothes will look good on them and so they go and buy it. It turns out that when the teenager buys the clothes which they saw on television it does not look good on them therefore purchasing clothes that is not a necessity. The 'Doritos' commercial, is another supplication to using women to sell their corn chips of different flavor. The commercial starts out with two men doing fancy techniques with the Doritos chips while at the laundromat, so a woman walks in the laundromat and takes one bag out of the man's hands and does acrobat acts in front of the men with the Doritos chips. This is also another way of making a young man ignorant. Young girls tend to be attracted to older male actors who sell them clothes. Furthermore, the girls are also drawn to famous female actors, which sell them perfume, skin care products, and hair products as well. choice in the 'get rich quick' scheme of becoming famous and rich overnight by playing basketball. Another representation, is 'EBWorld.com', a game retailer over the internet. They use a young man and put him in front of a computer screen, where as the camera is the computer screen and is looking at him and an attractive woman in the background of the picture. On the bottom of the picture, in big bold print, it says, "Know you're gonna score."; which also gives a canard statement of using sex to sell games for teenage boys. Sex has
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