Blog Post #4

*Unfortunately, the video-commercial that I should be attempting to view isn't showing up on the screen.*

I personally think that commercials aren't that bad. they're there for our viewing so that products may be sold. Commercials are a very smart way to advertise, seeing as even if we put the volume down, we will still see it. Especially if we are really, really into the show that we are watching. It's quite interesting that people feel so negatively about commercials. It shouldn't be that big of a deal, considering it is just a few minutes of our time in our lives, and yet we are all irritated so easily. I think it also has to do with our patience. The world wants faster internet, faster computers, faster everything. The big question here is: why? I mean, what's the point of that? We have all the time in the world to work on things and yet we don't want to wait two minutes for a simple video to load? I think that in our generation, patience is very hard to find. We are all so caught up in the many different things that we do and yet we still don't have time for people and advertisements.

Many advertisements these days have catchy phrases or inside jokes known specifically to a target group audience. For example people who are trying to sell things to the younger generation tend to put little inside jokes relating to vines or recent celebrities that everyone likes to trash. Products pertaining to older generations however, have inside jokes that have to do with things in the past. Many products aren't targeted towards the older generations, mainly because they know how to live without it. They know that they don't need it to survive. The younger generations, though, don't know this. They don't feel this way, and that is why commercials are so offensive to older generations. Young people these days are used to insults and many inappropriate things that are said now a days. They are probably seen as vulgar and not right to those who aren't accustomed to how this generation thinks and acts. Sometimes even I feel a tad bit awkward being there while everyone does things that I don't do. I don't mind though. If that's what they want to do, who am I to stop them?