And how to avoid to being just their vehicle for attention and free traffic? After all, we need some products and services?
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And how to avoid to being just their vehicle for attention and free traffic? After all, we need some products and services?
We do need products and services - but for the most part, we know what we need. Why surround ourselves with a thousand brochures of products we don't need?
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Yes, I totally agree with you, but I come from a former socialist country and I remember the times when I only had one kind of product, for example, I could buy a radio but I couldn't choose what kind ... well, now it's a totally different situation, I have to agree there too, now when I look at something I'm being followed on the big social networks and I'm being offered thousands of pieces of shit ... it's getting quite annoying ... I think we need to find some balance ...
Yep, you were raised at the other extreme, which is obviously not great either. Balance is what is required.
The thing with advertising is they try to make whatever they are selling seem like we need it, but it isn't the case. For me personally, I try to pay attention to what is actually important to me first and when something is "suggested" I cross-reference to see if it is something that satisfies my needs/likes, or of it is just something that I would buy and a short time after say, "what was I thinking? I don't need this."
I'm trying to do the same, I'm trying to get better informed, I used to read a lot of forums for different things and go into total detail, lose hours and hours, but then I realized that most of the time things don't really offer what their advertisers offer, so now I'm most sceptical about everything ...