Ads do more harm than good

[Randy]

Is having widespread advertising anywhere and everywhere good for a society?

 

[Sam.]

Can you tell me why it wouldn't be good?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I'd say there is too many advertisements in everything nowadays... You probably see 5,000 different types of adverts a day and not even realize it. One day I bet they will figure out a way to play commercials in our dreams.

 

[Evil Eye]

I sure hope not! *shudders*



They are good because they allow you to get free stuff

 

[xneseyx]

but sometimes this free stuff will do something bad. say you bought this free thing for your computer and it gave your computer a virus that you needed to pay x amount of dollars for, or else it needed this that and the other thing to be able to work properly. advertisements don't really care if they bend the truth a little bit, or leave something out.

 

[Evil Eye]

Not like that, I didn't mean clicking ads, that's terrible practise.

No, think hosting, you put some ads up and they pay for it

 

[hotspot]

There are too many ads these days and the ads on photobucket are evil, becuase I'm always accidently clicking on one.



Most ads are evil, but I do enjoy those ads that bring you to a site where you can play an mmorpg.