Week 14, Discussion 3

I think that each and every person is immersed in a sea of persuasion. Day after day we see billboards, magazines, television commercials, Internet ads, etc. that try to persuade us to buy certain objects or dress, talk, and look a certain way. During high school there were a lot of speakers who came from different companies or schools such as FIDM. The whole goal of the speaker from FIDM was to persuade students to go to that particular school and join its programs. The lady went over all of the different eras of fashion in the past hundred years and then gave all of the student’s information on the school. Persuasion like this is easy to avoid but media persuasion is not. In order to be a more critical consumer, it is best for a person to think hard about the item. On the Internet it is easy to hit add to cart, and while watching infomercials it is easy to dial a phone. In order to be a critical consumer, one must really sit back and think about how much they need the item, if it is really going to work, and why they need or want it.