I HATE ADS! You see how I used all caps in that last sentence to show how mad I am? I hate how they're everywhere. The only times ads are acceptable is when you're watching a good show on TV and a commercial comes on. Because then you can get up and use the bathroom without missing anything. Ads are only acceptable when they're entertaining. Everybody loves a funny commercial. Actually, now that I think about it, ads are fine when they're on TV or before a movie. But besides that, ads push me away just because of the fact that if they show up anywhere else than the places I just mention, they're really annoying.
Especially when I go on YouTube to listen to music and a stupid ads pop up. Just let me listen to my song in peace without getting interrupted with a commercial about Ford trucks. I mean yeah I understand why they put ads on music videos for artists and what not; but do they really need to put ads for a non official video? For example, I would want to listen to a song and look at the lyrics at the same time, so I would go on YouTube and search for a lyrics video. When I play the video, I'm ready and pumped to sing along...then an ad for a movie trailer pops up. It's super frustrating.
As shown int he picture above, I want to watch a video from the band Arctic Monkeys, but instead I have to wait a few seconds to skip a 2 minute movie trailer of Total Recall. Come on YouTube, seriously? I don't want to wait, just let me get straight to whatever I want to watch.
I also hate how they put ads on some apps for your phone. For example, when I'm playing Words with Friends. After I play a word, an add pops up and I have to wait for that ad to finish before I get to play another word.
What I'm trying to say is, the time and place for ads are for television, movies, and magazines. I mean, park benches and buses are appropriate too. They're not exactly pernicious or anything, since most of them are entertaining. But if ads are anywhere else but that, then that really pushes me away from them. I see ads on Facebook and plenty of other sites. Most of the time I just ignore them, but sometimes man...sometimes they just get on my nerves.
Hello Matthew,
ReplyDeleteI would first like to say that I completely agree with what you are saying. Next i want to say that you have a few grammatical errors in your blog post. You have a lot of fragmented sentences but for a blog this should be fine. overall i hate ads just like you but there are those few that just make you laugh and remember them no matter if you like them or not.
Matt your advertisment blog post was really funny and it was also good at the same time. i think the same about ads some are really funny. overall your first two blog post have been really good.
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