Many people say that using their personal information in order to specify ads toward them, is an invasion of privacy and should not be allowed. This does seem a little bit "big brother" if you ask me and I initially thought it to be weird the idea of personalized ads but after a while, I changed my mind on the subject.
The way I see it, there is no way we can escape the effects of advertising. You can’t walk into a single store or watch a single episode of your favorite TV show without being bombarded with different ads. This idea applies even more to the internet in my opinion. I think the internet has the highest volume of ads seen compared to the amount of time you spend on it compared to any other form of media. So if I am going to have to sit through all these ads, they might as well be something I am interested in.
I would rather see an ad for tickets to my favorite band because I "liked" them on Facebook rather than an ad trying to sell me something couldn't care less about. Some ads might be useful and let me know about a sale my favorite clothing store is having right now that I would never have known about and I would rather have to see those kinds of ads completely random ones.
Do you think personalized ads are good or bad? Why?
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