Essay On The Effects Of Advertising On American Youth

In today’s world, advertisement has more of an effect on American youth all across the globe than any other method simply due to the broadcast of the internet, television, and magazines. It’s amazing how advertisers can spread the message of their products, such as tobacco, body image, make-up, clothes, and alcohol, yet one does not hear or see the message of self-worth or uplifting men and women. As a living, advertisers make their living through promotion, however, their promotion is affecting American youth through the vices of magazines which entails self-esteem, body image, and unrealistic ideologies.
Many advertisers are objectifying or creating a false sense of reality- a utopia if you will to their audience. Many teens see and believe that they must look a certain way in order to be notice or feel securely about themselves. Unknowingly, they start to consciously compare themselves to another girl or boy while inadvertently losing their entire …show more content…
First, body image is the main focus for advertisements specifically in magazines. According to the Center for Young Women 's Health, "body image is based on your thoughts and feelings about the way your body looks." Advertisers persuades teens to want to look like the ideal size 2 image, unknowingly, it can lead to eating disorders and teens withdrawing from their normal lifestyle.
Lastly, another cause of how advertisers affect or correlate with American youth is the main factor which is peer pressure. Peer pressure comes in all shapes and sizes whether it is through the vices of television, the internet, magazines, and our environment. Advertisements effects American youth in a variety of ways, such as through grades, bullying, acne, popularity, adolescence, alcohol, pregnancies, depression etc. Overall, these particular social and internal struggles effect youth, people, and results in some form of