Advertising quote analysis

“Advertising is everywhere you look, whether it is in the newspaper you pick up daily or on that billboard you see while driving down the highway. Some people may say that they are not in fact influenced by the advertising that is thrown at them each day, and that they do not fall into it, but everyone does.”

I think that everyone is influenced by advertising, maybe in different ways or different levels. In the decisions we make daily, what are we going to eat, dress, buy, how we are going to look, our hair style, what are we going to say, everything has an influence, because advertising is a mirror of society. Maybe a stereotyped society, but at the end, is what we want to reach. But why we want to reach that stereotyped image? Because everybody else wants, and if we reach that first, we feel better than everyone else. Some people may say that they are not influenced by  any type of advertising, but that's not completely true. The clothes they are using,  the style they prefer, maybe what they are eating, all that little details have been influenced, maybe in a very little scale, by advertising.


So then, does advertising influence the decisions we make daily? Yes it does, and we can't avoid it, because advertising shows us how we should be, behave, what to at, how to dress ourselves, and we follow that models because if we don't, we are different. But why being different is bad? Because the society doesn't  leave others to be different, and if someone tries to be different, society pulls them back.