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I think your bubble might be very tech heavy. My wife (a millennial) and her friends buy things from ads All. The. Time.
by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I think your bubble might be very tech heavy. My wife (a millennial) and her friends buy things from ads All. The. Time.
- ambrose2 4y agoI must also be in this bubble because this blows my mind. I have never bought anything from an ad. Maybe a few times a year on something with really good targeting like Instagram I’ll click on it if it’s interesting and I want to learn more, but I wouldn’t buy it. I just can’t imagine spending money that way, rather than “I need to solve x or do y so I need z so I will find it and buy it”.
- jemmyw 4y agoWhat do they buy?
- I_AM_A_SMURF 4y agoBeauty products, phone cases, cheap jewelry stuff like that.
- jemmyw 4y agoah. Should sick my millennial wife on them. Her clothes have to be literally falling apart at the seams before she consents to considering new ones. Doesn't wear beauty products. Had a knitted case made for her phone 5 years ago. I did not seek out a person with these attributes but I'm pretty glad about it. The only downside is she isn't that tolerant of me buying tat either.
- trieste92 4y agoThis. Gen Z's I know will buy random shit like shoes or phone cases off of Instagram Me personally? Seeing something on Instagram is enough of a reason for me to never buy it. Same for influencers telling me to buy something, I'd rather they eat shit But for ads that get interleaved with organic Amazon results, a lot of these are harder to spot (and also more innocuous imo)
- abandonliberty 4y agoYes, I think you're right. Enough of the population falls for predatory online scams for them to be profitable.
- jeltz 4y agoHow? Back before I used an adblocker it is not like most ads were anything I really wanted or in some cases even could buy. Very few ads are a direct call to sales and they were often irrelevant.