Advertising in Social Media

This blog discusses advertising in social media, and how it has evolved and changed throughout history.  We will show the different ways companies use sites like Facebook and Twitter to promote their products to a specific audience.  The picture shows how much advertising occur on these social media sites, but are blended into the rest of the page so they do not blatantly attract users’ attention.  This is important because the public must know when they are being targeted to buy a product, and the ways in which advertisers are doing so.  It is important for people to know if they are being deceived, or if a product is truly beneficial to his/her lifestyle.