Dance the Night Away!
I’m a huge fan of Al Gore’s creation, the Internet. I use it for expressing myself in this blog, wasting time, communicating with friends and loved ones, playing games, for college coursework, and even as a tool to get actual honest work done. Heck, it’s even the place I met my wife! Even with all its goodness, there is still something bothering me about it.
That bother is advertisements with dancing people and things. They pop-up everywhere! These ads are predominately for mortgage companies. Like refinancing is some kind of impulse purchase… click and save, NOW, NOW, NOW!
They feature everything from silhouettes of shapely people to robots. The one I find most disturbing is the character wearing a suit, tie, and fedora. IT looks like some sort of 1950s G-Man out of one of J. Edgar Hoover’s perverse fantasies. I’ll spare you and leave it at that.
Am I the only victim?
That bother is advertisements with dancing people and things. They pop-up everywhere! These ads are predominately for mortgage companies. Like refinancing is some kind of impulse purchase… click and save, NOW, NOW, NOW!
They feature everything from silhouettes of shapely people to robots. The one I find most disturbing is the character wearing a suit, tie, and fedora. IT looks like some sort of 1950s G-Man out of one of J. Edgar Hoover’s perverse fantasies. I’ll spare you and leave it at that.
Am I the only victim?
posted by TGB at
5:29 AM
4 Comments:
I haven't seen your friend with the hat yet unless it is a disguise for the dancing green alien that I usually see.
Why do the folks in marketing think we like this stuff? What gene pool are they wading in to get their consumer feedback.....hopefully not anyone I'm related too. They have also invaded our TV viewing - tiny people walk across the bottom of my screen just at the tension gripping point of my favorite shows! If it is the tiny person's night off, they send a car to speed by or an elephant to wave his trunk around. One evening one of my favorite actresses spent an hour with the program logo popping up on her backside.
What about the clever little pops up that won’t close? Or the ones that manage to sneak in behind the window you have open……if I’m not careful six or eight have piled up one on top of the other back there…..just waiting.
It is distracting, tacky and just plain annoying! Someone tell the companies that we are going to stop buying products or watching shows that invite themselves into our home and onto our TV and computer screens!
I haven't seen your friend with the hat yet unless it is a disguise for the dancing green alien that I usually see.
Why do the folks in marketing think we like this stuff? What gene pool are they wading in to get their consumer feedback.....hopefully not anyone I'm related too. They have also invaded our TV viewing - tiny people walk across the bottom of my screen just at the tension gripping point of my favorite shows! If it is the tiny person's night off, they send a car to speed by or an elephant to wave his trunk around. One evening one of my favorite actresses spent an hour with the program logo popping up on her backside.
What about the clever little pops up that won’t close? Or the ones that manage to sneak in behind the window you have open……if I’m not careful six or eight have piled up one on top of the other back there…..just waiting.
It is distracting, tacky and just plain annoying! Someone tell the companies that we are going to stop buying products or watching shows that invite themselves into our home and onto our TV and computer screens!
bee: Come to think of it, I have never bought any products from companies that advertise that way. I suppose I never will. Even so, it has to be working, and working well. Too much money is invested in market research for it not to be. Typically, things that are not profitable wither.
I really did enjoy the gene pool comment!
I caught myself being deceitful:
"Come to think of it, I have never bought any products from companies that advertise that way. I suppose I never will." ---TGB
I suppose you could put CHI Institute in this group.
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