Sea of Persuasion

How are you immersed in a sea of persuasion? Give some examples of persuasive messages you’ve received in interpersonal, public speaking, and mass media contexts. What can you do to become a more critical consumer or persuasive messages?

There are many forms of persuasion in our everyday world. From television to magazine ads to talking to our friends, everything has a form of persuasion. Magazines, especially women's magazines, constantly portray women who are skinny and beautiful. Makeup ads show pictures of beautiful women and say that if you buy that product, you can look like them. This is a form of persuasion. They are using images to sell their products, trying to persuade you to buy their product so that you can look beautiful like the women in their pictures. Television is the same as magazines. Every commercial is a form of persuasion. In every commercial, they are trying to sell you a product. In a commercial for toilet paper, they compare their toilet paper to another leading brand and show how theirs is better. They are trying to convince you to buy their product over their competitors. People in companies go to meetings so they can give presentations. In most cases, they are trying to pitch an idea and sell it to the company. Friends always try to influence and persuade their other friends. For instance, girls go shopping together and try on clothes. Their friends try to persuade them to buy a skirt they think looks good on them. I can be more critical consumer by comparing different products and maybe when i see a commercial or ad, to really think what they are trying to sell to me. I can be more careful and not fall for their ads so easily.