blog: 2 "Hype"

In the article " Hype" by Kalle Lasn, the author says that, advertisements are affecting us like mental pollutants because they are entirely taking the control of our minds. Nowadays, every where we go there are advertisements, and even when we seat at home to watching TV we have to see commercial advertisements, The author made emphasis in advertisements because they are taking out the peaceful of our minds. Which, lead us to get stress more easier.

Nevertheless, there are positive and negative ways of advertisements. First of all, to sell any kind of product, the company has to create advertisements to show what came new to the marketing place in order to make some money. Moreover, we can get benefits from them in certain way, because will teach us about the latest advance of the technology.

Secondly, have this negative side, because there are different types of advertisements every where, which are for adults and kids. Here is when the problem starts. Because children can watch an inappropriate ads, leading them to memorize and learn things that they don't supposed to learn at their ages. As the author said " Now I hear kids singing Oscar Meyer song" when at their ages they don't supposed to sing adults songs.

In conclusion, advertisements are invading our lives and society. Even thought, companies have the right of advertise, I have to say that advertisements are affecting our society, in the way that we are not enjoying anything, because every where we go there are some ads. Making our lives stressful along with the bad influence to our kids. In order to protect ourselves and kids we should stoppage or ban against advertisements, because too much of something can be harmful for us.