"Recently I found an article on the American Marketing Association's website about drug companies and their advertising now moving to social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter..... So, do you think there is a time and place for certain marketing?"
I completely agree with you, I also believe that there is a time and place for certain marketing. Advertising on social network sites should be limited seeing as there are people of all ages who have access to these sites. In my most recent blog post, I talked about how texting advertising might have issues with who they advertise to because so many people have cell phones now, regardless of age. I believe that advertising needs to be careful where and when they advertise because they never know who might see them. I know that if I had a child, I would not want them seeing certain advertisements. Some advertising now has some sort of sexual undertone to catch the attention of the consumer that I would not want my child being exposed to.
Also as Paige stated on her blog, advertising on something such as face book gives limited space for their advertising, sometimes cutting out some of the side effects of the given drug. This would also cause a major problem if people don't do their research before hand. This could directly harm the person taking the drugs and could maybe even cause various law suits due to side effects not being mentioned on the said advertisement.
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