I absolutely love to shop. Yesterday I went to the mall and I was overwhelmed with happy sensations from seeing all these wonderful items of clothing and accessories that I could possibly buy. WAIT a minute...there's something wrong with that. I should be getting warm fuzzies from caring loving people...not clothes and accessories. Even though I had warm fuzzies I also had a sense of anguish because I realized that there was no way I would be able to get all the things that I liked. This cognitive dissonance really made me feel horrible inside. Usually the way to resolve this type of cognitive dissonance is to buy everything that you want without worrying about money, which is what companies want. Unfortunately for the companies, I have a little more common sense than to waste all my money on clothes when I know I have more important things for that money to go to. Thank goodness for this media blog too!
I think I fall too easily for marketing strategies and I would definitely be in the target audience of most companies. In general, the appeals the attract me the most is the need for attention, the need for affiliation, the need for autonomy, and the need to achieve. I know that's a lot of appeals, but as a teenage girl who wants to fit in, but also wants to stand out, there's no doubt that the list is going to get pretty long.
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