I can’t believe it took me this long to think about this crazy extreme distraction, especially since I am an advertising major. I mean come on! The very core purpose of an ad is to distract. An ad is supposed to grab your attention from whatever it was you were doing and get you looking/thinking about that specific product/brand. In-fact, if an ad doesn’t distract you from what you were previously doing/thinking it isn’t doing its job and I get fired as an advertiser. I personally think the most distracting are digital computer ads. They literally take up 40% of almost every web page, begging you to look at them. Don’t even get me started on pop-up ads. Talk about distracting. Nowadays there is also what is knows as remarketing. This is where you are looking at something, lets say a new shirt on Amazon and then for the next week ads for that specific shirt pop up all over the web pages you are looking at. Pretty creepy as well as awfully distracting. I get on the computer to check what the weather is and the next thing I know I’m clicking through a slideshow of random products.