I tend to tell myself that I am not affected by advertising. But I suspect that most people think that. So I ask myself: What am I not seeing?
I have heard that many ads are designed to sell you a “lifestyle”. I do not care about lifestyle, and I care relatively little about social status.
I do occasionally buy something after seeing an ad—usually when it something obviously useful to me. (For example, I bought “The Level Up”, a physical platform for board games, after seeing an ad for the Kickstarter campaign.) But I can find no examples where it seems like I was manipulated into buying something I had no good reason to want.
Does anyone have experience with this? When someone says “I don’t let ads manipulate me”, what are they probably missing?
[Question] If I imagine that I am immune to advertising, what am I probably missing?
I tend to tell myself that I am not affected by advertising. But I suspect that most people think that. So I ask myself: What am I not seeing?
I have heard that many ads are designed to sell you a “lifestyle”. I do not care about lifestyle, and I care relatively little about social status.
I do occasionally buy something after seeing an ad—usually when it something obviously useful to me. (For example, I bought “The Level Up”, a physical platform for board games, after seeing an ad for the Kickstarter campaign.) But I can find no examples where it seems like I was manipulated into buying something I had no good reason to want.
Does anyone have experience with this? When someone says “I don’t let ads manipulate me”, what are they probably missing?