New Telemarketers :: Internet Computers Technology Media Essays

New Telemarketers The new(prenominal) day, while doing what should have been a five-minute task, I was online attending for a electronic network page. Because I am a horrible speller, and mostly because I was in a hurry, I typed in the wrong web address. Instead of Google.com, I got Goggle.com.Instantly I was bombarded with fifty, yes I counted, fifty pop-up ads on my computer screen. As Internet users, I am sure that you know that these advertisements atomic number 18 not only annoying, scarce very frustrating when trying to get things through quickly. And they be, in this particular instance, confusing to both me and my computer. Ironically, or maybe a stroke of marketing genius, the very last pop-up was an ad for a sluttish pop-up killer program that you could download. The ad worked because after killing all those ads, I found myself downloading the program to stop those annoying things. Then, I swore it worked because the next cardinal times I went to Goggle.com there we re no ads. (There was also no search engine, which took me a few more minutes to figure out why). Since then, I have become extremely annoyed with the program and removed it from my computer, but only after the program asked me an separate three times if I was sure I wanted to remove it or buy the master copy version.While yet I will admit these ads and tactics depend like marketing gold, they also seem intruding and unethical. They may even lead to the demise of the Internet itself. And yes, I do realize that description seems a bit extreme.Using the web as a conference medium is a good function of the World Wide Web. intercourse mediums are one of the many functions that the web has to offer our society. But, these pop-up ads and other forms of galling promotional tactics, such as spam, re-routing and faux error messages, are unethical. They are unethical because they mislead users into displaying advertising some are unethical because promoters are forcing advertising mess ages on people (Farkas 110). And as you know and can suppose from my experiences, they happen way too often.But how can these unethical practices shock society and the Internet? Well, as Marshall McLuhan states, like any other extension of man, typography had psychic and social consequences that suddenly shifted previous boundaries and patterns of polish (McLuhan 233). In his chapter he implies that print and type lead to industrial revolution the Internet can impact society just as greatly.