Today people are surrounded by advertising. This affects what people think is important and has a negative impact on people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

IELTS Writing Topic: Today people are surrounded by advertising. This affects what people think is important and has a negative impact on people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In the modern era, advertisements appear all aspects in our daily lives. I think this phenomenon will bring more problems than benefits to individuals and the society.

The proliferation of commercials can provide misleading information to the masses, which will lead to a lot of unnecessary consumption. Everyone who lives in China has those experience that they receive so many advertising messages on November 11 of every year, and those advertising campaigns can influence people’s behaviour in an imperceptible way, there are only a few people could resist this impulse to shop. Therefore, after the “double eleven” shopping festival, it is easy for us to see some news that someone spends so much money in purchasing too many things which may never be used. Also, as we all know, most advertisements are driven by profits, so some unscrupulous businesses will advertise aim at children deliberately, children are simple and direct,so that they may consume just for interest, thus fall for manufacturers’ pitches, and it will place a heavy burden on family’s finance.

It is true that those ubiquitous commercials can lead to an increase in the development of country, especially in those nations which have a large population and a huge market, the money used for shopping will increase the tax revenue of the government, hence more Infrastructures and better social welfare system will be invested. However, compared with the negative effects that advertisements would bring to other aspects of the society, this growth in funding would be insignificant.

To summarize, although these large-scale advertising campaigns could lead to the progress in infrastructures and improvement in government revenues, I believe that their impact on individuals and families is negative.