Why I Hate Advertisements

In our society today, social media is very important to the common person, which then gives ads the opportunities to also try and become important. Social media over the last years has become very popular worldwide, and the way that they are able to do that is by incorporating ads into it. Ads pop up for many reasons that we tend to find annoying or inconvenient. There also is ads that may be appealing to some, but to others it is not. In my opinion, I hate ads, and that is why I am writing this essay. Ads have three problems that they run into when it comes to social media; the differences of people's interests, the needs of people, and the consistency of the ads.
To begin, the first main problem that an ad has when it comes to social media is dealing with the differences between each person. Every person has their own interests, and typically they are not the exact same as the person next to them. If an ad pops up for someone to go skydiving, but they are afraid of heights, than that ad clearly failed greatly. If that ad were to pop up on my …show more content…
Often times, I will receive an ad once, and then never see the ad for a month or even ever again. When I get an ad that is just a once in a lifetime ad, than I am not able to act upon whatever was offered in the ad. There has been times, that I have wished an ad would never appear again, such as the clash of clans game. But then there is other times where I am searching for whatever the ad offered, because it is something that I would actually enjoy, but cannot due to the fact that it won't appear again. This is where it comes into play again, that ads need to be personalized in order to make an impact. If the ad had known that I liked whatever it was showing me, than it would have had the opportunity to appear again. This plays into the role of annoyance, because it doesn't have an actual plan, that is what the main problem with an ad happens to