Please view the “Facebook Infomercial” parody video on the YouTube site at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0. (The video is three and a half minutes long. You will need to have a computer that will play sound—if you’re using the FPC computer lab bring a pair of headphones.)
The video is a parody—it was created for a college TV station and is like a comedy sketch, such one might see on Saturday Night Live or Mad TV, about the social networking website Facebook. It’s imitating, and thus poking fun at, the website Facebook. It is similar to a real commercial for the online dating service eHarmony.
The main purpose of parody is usually entertainment, to create something funny. Parody can also inform and persuade—comedy can sometimes provide special information and insight that direct discussion and description of an issue might not.
Please view the parody, and then write a response of several sentences about your reaction to the parody. Include in your response your answer to at least one of the following questions.
Did the parody help you understand what Facebook is like?
If you have heard of Facebook before, did the parody confirm or contradict your impression of Facebook and how people use it?
Did you enjoy watching the parody? Explain why or why not.
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Engaging where students are and asking students who resist the question that makes use of that resistance.
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