Blog Prompt

I think this video teaches about Shakespeare’s classic texts about the theme: birth, ambition, and other life experiences could all be shared and enjoyed with your friends and family through Google Plus.
This video uses Shakespeare to make a statement about social networking technologies by having a narrator speaking Shakespeare’s poem in the background as the video plays. This poem by Shakespeare is relevant to the social relationships, and by emphasizing the importance the social life is to a person’s life. This video makes the audience believing that Google Plus will enrich their social life. This video reveals that the social networking technologies, not just Google Plus, but Facebook and Twitter, have become one of the mainstreams to expand a person’s social life. Furthermore, it also reveals the truth that many social contacts involved electronic devices, such as laptop, network, cell phone, and etc. I will say this video is powerful and persuasive. I believe it successfully gets audience’s attention with the background music and Shakespeare’s poem. The video briefly presents a life of a man going from a teenage boy to a grandfather while showing features of Google Plus. This is very clever because Google blends a man’s life story into Google Plus, which makes it very familiar and friendly for its future users.