Pop Ups

: Pop Ups

Specifications : 3 Pages , 1 Source , and MLA Style

: language What is your experience with pop ups and how do you feel about them

What is wrong with pop ups from a moral point of view

write two to three pages explaining your experiences with pop ups , what you know about them , and your opinion on how they stand as a moral or immoral piece of advertising

A pop up ad is a window that suddenly appears over another window , once actually the address is typed and attempts are made

to visit that particular website . The mouse or the keyboard may give the commands to the pop up to appear . Pop up ads should be closely differentiated from pop under ads (these would be appearing below the window of the website visited . Many people do hate pop ups , as they would be interfering with viewing of another web site . Pops up ads are a mean of advertisements , as they would be drawing the attention of the user (Webopedia . 2003

A pop up would contain different kinds of information of a product or a service and would be given commands from which the user has the option of selecting . If the pop up blocker were clicked , it would usually lead to another web site . People usually do not like pop ups because they usually lead to unwanted web sites . The pop up would contain several commands including maximize , minimize and close . A pop up would disappear from the screen only if the close button or the minimize button is pressed (Webopedia . 2003

I do find pop ups very annoying as they would be directly interfering with the viewing a website . Most of the pop ups provide inappropriate information that is really not required . They slow down computer systems by downloading information from a particular database . Pop ups do seem to be a cause of concern for people using the slower dial-up connections , as these ads would be taking up a lot of bandwidth space On the other hand , people using broadband connection also experience difficulty with popup as they would encourage a lot of unwanted programs to enter the system within a very short period of time . Some of the advertisements are actually not meant for children . The information provided on a pop up may actually be misleading the user into clicking on a faulty link . Pop ups are moneymakers for the owners of the websites , and hence even a genuine web site would be having a pop up This may be very annoying for the user , as they would desire something and instead be provided with something different (About , 2007

Besides , pop ups have really harmed my computer system . I found one of the ads of a pop up very interesting and persuading , and hence I clicked on the pop up . However , to my disgust , the pop up permitted a spy ware or ad ware to be installed in my system . It terribly slowed down...