Do Television Advertisements Make Consumers Want to Make Changes in Their Lives?
Do television advertisements make consumers want to make changes in their lives? Some advertisements can make young people feel insecure about their physical appearance. They can also create a need for young people to be attractive which could lead to a result of insufficient funds. In short, advertisements today encourage adolescents to spend more time and money on products that will help make them the “perfect human”. Television advertisements may use skinny models, which can give young women a sense that they need to be thin and cause them to feel insecure about their appearance. Some girls will go to extreme lengths to look like a model in a magazine. They might go on extreme diets, which can lead to anorexia and bulimia, and many other types of disorders. Doing so would also cause harm to their body; their organs could become damaged and could fail, or they could become hospitalized due to the fact that they are malnourished; but also, these advertisements can make people feel stressed about their body type. The models in the advertisements for cloths are skinny, and this can make girls think that their body is not beautiful. Those advertisements can make them feel unattractive or unworthy. Advertisements today are telling young adults that they need to be skinny to be beautiful or attractive. Advertisements in magazines and on television are exploiting the need for young people to be attractive. When teenagers and women see a model who is in their definition if “gorgeous”, they might think that what they are seeing is the definition of attractiveness. For example, teenagers feel the need to look a certain way. They will buy products that will eliminate acne or reduce it. Acne is a natural part of being a teenager. There are advertisements that show products for facial hair removal. Humans have hair all over their bodies, so why remove a little hair on your face? The answer to that question is that facial hair can be annoying and unappealing. However,