Lesson: What is Google+ (Google Plus) and do I need it?
Conversation
Answer the following questions. You might be asked to write them down or answer them out-loud.
- What social platafroms do you use?
- What are some good points about social networking?
- What are some bad points about social networking?
- Do you like using social networks?
- Do you think that people expose themselves too much on social networks?
- What information do you have on your webpage?
- What kind of information are you comfortable releasing to the public?
- Do your relatives use social networking sites?
- What type of information should you put on social networking sites that you think that wont lead to overexposure?
- Do you think that social plataforms can be socially dangerous?
Vocabulary
Look at the vocabulary below. Take time to explore the links for their definitions in English and their translations to Portuguese. When you are done, make a sentence with each word. Ask your teacher if you should write them down or say them out loud.
Video
Watch the following video but DON'T read the transcript yet.
After watching the video do this listening exercise.
So I'm on the old facebook page, and recentely I've been seeing a lot of updates like this...in fact I've been hearing a lot about google + all over so I created an account, and suddenly everyone finds me there and my inbox is flooded by people putting me in their circles.
So we got circles now?
You see.. I'm pretty happy with facebook I've alredy set camp here, its that old familiar place where i see everyone's updates, what is not to love? well...maybe not that guy.
And it IS annoying that my boss is now my friend so im busy untagging all my incriminating photos and hoping that my privacy settings are set right,and often times I'm censuring my updates.
And let's be honest, just because you know a guy from work it doesnt mean that you like what he likes.
You see, on facebook everybody is your friend, and that doesn't make a lot of sense bcause in real life that's not how it works.
But do I really wanna choose a new social network? You know what? Forget it ! That's too much im going back to "Myspace". You know what? forget about all this, I'M going outside where relationships are real and life makes more sense im going to avoid social media forever.
"hmmm who are you?"
"I'M the social media guru and I will teach you the ways of choosing a social media plataform, you already have a facebook account and you know what it can do and what it can't, so what about Google+?
In google+ instead the assumption that everyone is your friend and you put everyone in appropriate groups called circles,people can be in more than one circle, just like in real life,and you can easily share something with just some people or with everyone, that's just a few features in google+ there are lots more, and also remember Google+ is in its early phases, expect google's many apps to continue to merge in the social network overtime making it better and better."
"Well facebook's got to catch back up, right? SO I will wait until they figure things out."
"What's your e-mail?"
"errr... Google?"
"Where do you search?"
"Google"
"DO you use RSS?"
"Yeah...Google...Reader.
"And probably more hm? You see, you don't need to use Google+, sooner or later you are going to end up using it."
Reading practice
Read the following transcript then do the associated reading comprehension exercise.
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Writing practice
Write a couple of paragraphs ---->>>> instructions <<<<-----. Make sure to use words you learned from the text and try to make it as long as you can.