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German Cabrera
MKT 205
February 20, 2017
• 1. Give an example of a situation in which you feel you were manipulated by marketers while
using social media.
I feel marketers manipulate us all the time. The way they use cache and cookies stored in our
computers is a very interesting thing. Through the use of cookies stored in my computer they
know what I am looking for in the internet and therefore they know what I am thinking, what
I want, and what I need. Then, they just bomb us with ads in Facebook reminding us of the
same (or similar) things we have been searching for online.
• 2. Why did you feel manipulated?
I felt manipulated because they are sort of invading my privacy, analyzing and seeing
everything I look for online and then using that to their advantages later by constantly
reminding me of those things I once looked for online that I might or might not really need,
but that they would definitely want me and probably make me buy anyways by just that
constant reminders and posting of ads on social media that I cannot escape from.
• 3. How did it make you feel?
All this stuff makes me feel like kind of a puppet, like they are toying with me, pulling the
strings, making me do thing for them like buying stuff I don’t really need or going to places I
don’t really need to be at.
• 4. Did this film change your opinion in any way regarding the use of social media?
No, it did not make me feel any different about social media. By now I already know or the
pros and cons of using social media, and I know what I get myself into when I use social
media, but today, in these times, it’s just part of our everyday lives.
