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Advertising affects our daily lives. Often, we do not even notice it. But it's out there. Consider the number of ads you have seen today. You probably can't even count them. If you've turned on the tv, you've likely seen dozens of ads in a mere half-hour span. Besides the commercials that air during programming breaks, there is the increasingly-frequent product placement. Maybe you watched a show like "The Price is Right" which is built almost entirely on advertising.

You've probably seen several ads just logging on to the internet. There are ads on almost every website out there. Internet advertising is one of the fastest-growing kinds of marketing in existence. The internet makes it easy for people to not only place ads themselves, but to solicit advertising on their own sites.

If you flipped through a magazine today, you probably had to pass many ads before you even reached any of the magazine's content. Some magazines feature ads right on the front cover. It is often difficult to distinguish a magazine's content from the ads.

Advertising doesn't just appear on tv and magazines. You'll see ads on buses, billboards, even on other products. From the moment you wake up in the morning, you are greeted by advertising whether you know it or not. Your alarm clock might be waking you up with an ad right now. However, you must rememeber that it is up to you to decide how you want this ad to affect you. Advertising should not control us, we control it. That is the way things should be. Never, ever forget this.