Framing

I don't purchase many things so I'm not going to talk about something I've bought, but I want to talk about the way some businesses market their products with framing that may be unethical. one current example of this that makes me furious is the taco bell drive through diet. that commercial is attempting to get people to think that taco bell is healthy and I'm sure people have said after that commercial its ok its part of the drive through diet because their frame of ming is this is healthy. well i've got news for you if your getting nachos and a soda to it's not healthy. that goes for any other fast food establishment that claims to have healthy items on the menu as well.

the other example I think of is a few years ago when tobacco companies made cigarettes out to be cool, there not cool the make you smell and can give you cancer, but peoples believed smoking them made you cool.        

YMCA camp sloper

There is a group that I am apart of that is very important to me, that is counselors at YMCA camp sloper. we have a logo that we wear on our shirts which is a sunsetting over a pond with a turtle. the logo also features the the YMCA logo, this is very important to our shirts becuase it lets people know that we are affiliated with the YMCA. the logo also sports the camp slogan; fun, adventure, tradtion. letting people know what to expect when they come to our camp.

our shirts are also bright orange thats important becuase in my town when people see the color orange they think camp sloper, so becuase we want to be a good model for our brand we have to be carful about where we wear our shirts, for example we told never to go to a bar or package store wearing any sloper clothing.

the pretty good problem

I haven't purchased much recently the one thing i have purchased was a new laptop. I chose to get a dell, my name is Barry and I'm a pc. I can say that because every laptop i've had has been a pc and I identify them as a better brand of laptop. pcs are remarkable to me because for one thing their easier to use, that could be becuase I'm used to them but I stick with it for that reason. the other reason i like pcs better is their size my laptop is hugh and i like that better than the pocket laptops apple makes. for the most part all laptops can do the same thing but I would rather have a pc because to me a pc is better

silly bands and go go's

I worked with kids all summer so the trends I saw were the trends kids were into. the two big things for the summer were silly bands and go gos. these are the new pokemon cards except less intricate.

at first these two things seemed ridiculus to me go gos are little plastic charaters that are differnt colors. there are a bunch of differnt kinds and kids collect them, some kids have hundreds. silly bands are elastic bands that are in differnt shapes and colors.

I've never seen an advertisment for either product, which is either because there aren't any or becuase on my not in their target market and there good at adverrtising. Either way I know kids everywhere have them I work in CT so i know their popular there and I know there popular in VT becuase my cousins are crazy about them.

I currently own about twenty silly bands that kids have given me, but i would never buy my own. GoGos are just ridiculus i feel bad for parents who have to buy them.

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