Tooth Tunes

I was watching Despicable Me today on Disney Channel and they had a commercial that I thought was interesting for kids. It was by the product Tooth Tunes which is a toothbrush that plays music when you are brushing your teeth. After learning about advertising in this class a while back, I was observing it more than I would have. It was interesting to watch. They were encouraging brushing your teeth more than they were of the actual product, which I thought was good. I can see how they use the technique of having the "pester power" of children to get their parents to buy the product. The children would see the commercial, see how cool the toothbrush was and then ask their parents to buy it for them. I thought it was a pretty good advertisement that encouraged brushing your teeth but also was promoting their product.

Blog Posts

This past week, I read a blog post that was kind of eye opening to me. I have been a pretty avid follower of blogs for a while now but after learning different things about media and thoughts people had, this post made me realize some things. This blog I read is a pretty popular one. She has a lot of followers. This post that she wrote, was kind of an angry post. There had been people on instagram and also comments on her blog that suspected she was pregnant, but she hadn't mentioned anything about that. She was upset and frustrated that people would just assume those things about her and I bet her feelings were hurt. It made me realize that we sometimes really need to keep our opinions to ourselves and not comment things that are jumping to conclusions or acting like we know someone more than we really do.