As I browse around on the Internet or the World wide web, I have to ask myself , "What has happened to Advertising?" Most of it reminds me of the snakeoil salesman, I'm telling a little of my age now, no, I'm not that old. I mean what I have heard about them, not first hand and because some of the readers probably haven't heard that phrase.
Usually they are standing in front of a mansion, then in front of fancy cars and boats, then they show you a picture of a beach front, villa, or mountain range. All theirs, they claim but is it , how do You know? For the most part, I could walk in front of those things, have someone take a picture and claim they are mine. Unless you really knew me personally, you'd never know.
The advertisers then have a page where they get their Witnesses or Testimonials, who probably doesn't even know that their face is being used or they are on a site that is for that purpose, but the faces are used and the products they have no knowledge of.
BINGO! An instant millionare. Didn't know it was that easy did ya? Step right up.
What is the product, what are the advertisements trying to get you to buy? Is it real or fictitious? A Dream or Reality? Sad to say most are mere wisp of hope, dream clouds that you can float on until your money runs out. Then they don't know you or what you are talking about. While your dreams, hope, money are crumbled and in the trash, they finally make enough to go on that criuse, buy that car, or that house that YOU have always dream about.
The Department of Commerce needs to get a backbone and start enforcing the truth in advertising laws that we have. Fine those buggers and get advertising back to the honest profession it use to be, uh, at least as honest as it use to be.
