Push Advertising + HTML = &*%^ing Pop-Up Windows 
Ah, the digital age. All that great information is right at your fingertips, waiting for you to buy the newest e-book, compare stocks, search for information for Geography class, or find hot.uh.you know. With all this Internet traffic, advertisers have found a new way to reach consumers. While being graphically and technically advanced, "pop-up" ads are one thing that is both a detriment and a blessing for businesses: Annoying. No matter what site you go to, Yahoo!, The Onion, whatever-there are pop-ups everywhere. From my own personal experience, these ads are usually for things like debt consolidation, mortgages, credit cards and things of a financial nature. Other times they're for contests, a new software product, or a vehicle. Regardless of the information they convey, these ads are simply a nuisance, and this can be both good and bad. Let's look at the bad first. Sometimes when you close one of these ads out, two more pop up in its place, hence the name. They appear when you first log onto a site, and reappear when you hit the "Back" command and return to the site. One for JobsOnline appeared on the RU site today. This can be good for business, though. The entire psychology, well, most of it anyway, of advertising is to get a product or service in a potential customer's head. It's working on me: here I am going on and on about these horrible pop-up ads, but I know what kinds of products and services they promote, and which sites I can go to for more information. They stay in my head like a cheesy jingle for a furniture warehouse. If people say they are wholly uninfluenced by the media, they're lying through their teeth. Times like these are where I am grateful Whim cannot advertise on the state server. I know that pop-up ads have their purpose, but I know of more people who hate them than laud them. We'd lose a lot of readers if we had pop-ups on here. You know, not enough people read Whim. We should think about putting pop-ups on some sites...
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