In the Article “Jesus is A Brand of Jeans”, Jean Kilbourne talks about how advertisements encourage people to buy their products, but in order to do this people use tactics that can be bad because of the way that they try to get people to buy these products. When they advertise these products they usually try to make the product look more important than actual people, or the people who advertise the product try to make everyone think that we need the product for us to be happy. The most dangerous part about advertisements is that they can flourish addictions because the company will try to get us to try that product even if it can harm many people and they won't show people what has happened to the many people that have suffered from their product.
When Companies try and get people to use their product or in some cases keep using their product, the company will try to get a specific age group to use their products by having people in that specific age group be in that ad so people that age will be able to relate to it even though the product may be harmful, Marlboro has people within the ages of 18-21 be in the ad where people are enjoying themselves by doing many things some include doing something that you never thought would be possible, and being with an intimate other. …show more content…
The reason that it is easy for gaming companies to profit from this is because the companies can target all age groups. Video games can range from games for toddlers to adults 18 or older, the reason this is a bad addiction is because it causes people to become anti-social because the person would prefer to stay in their house and play video games than interact with people in life. The people who advertise these games can make any game look like the most action-packed game that
When Companies try and get people to use their product or in some cases keep using their product, the company will try to get a specific age group to use their products by having people in that specific age group be in that ad so people that age will be able to relate to it even though the product may be harmful, Marlboro has people within the ages of 18-21 be in the ad where people are enjoying themselves by doing many things some include doing something that you never thought would be possible, and being with an intimate other. …show more content…
The reason that it is easy for gaming companies to profit from this is because the companies can target all age groups. Video games can range from games for toddlers to adults 18 or older, the reason this is a bad addiction is because it causes people to become anti-social because the person would prefer to stay in their house and play video games than interact with people in life. The people who advertise these games can make any game look like the most action-packed game that