Nearly every day I think the heavens and the God that may live in them for the fact that I am a grown-ass woman now that social media has taken over.
I’m not saying that I was up to a whole ton of trouble back in my single days, but it was enough that I’m glad no one was photographing it with their phones and then Tweeting it. These days, the worst you’ll catch me doing with your camera phone is looking gnarly in the morning at elementary school drop-off.
The downfall of not being young and stupid in the age of social media is that I never had anyone make me a breathtaking “come back to me” video like Mark Potter of Google Chrome fame did, and I never had the opportunity to make one for someone else.
I wouldn’t trade my marriage or my fantastic husband for anything, but these ads are fun, even if just to live vicariously. Others, however, think Google Chrome’s ads are tiresome manipulations of sentimentality. At the worst, people think Mark Potter seems pathetic to be trying to win back his girl in such a public way.
What do you think of Mark Potter’s public plea to get Jen to give him a second chance? Would you ever make a video where you put yourself on the line like this?
How does this sort of public statement of emotion affect masculinity as a whole? Is Google manipulating viewers with sentimental ads like this and the one featuring the awesome dad who writes an e-journal of letters to his baby daughter Sophie? Or do they show a softer, more vulnerable side of masculinity?
Does Mark Potter represent you, as a man?
Oh and finally… Does anyone know whether Jen actually gave Mark a second chance?
This is real? I just assumed it was just a really good ad with a shit hot art director.
And in a time when banks and supermarkets are trying to tug the heartstrings in their ads, this use of sentimentality seems fairly pedestrian.
It’s sweet but also sad and pathetic.
Sorry Mark, but if you’ve got to beg, she’s not that into you.
MOA.
This doesn’t strike me much different that songs that featured a similar premise. A guy that is trying to ask his girl to come back to him over the course of 3-5min. of him going on about how great the relationship was and how he f’d it up and how he wants her back so badly. This is just done with a tech spin in place of the musical spin. So I don’t think it’s show much showing a softer side of men so much as showing a softer side of today’s men maybe. I personally grew up before the… Read more »
To the commercial all I can say as a man is wow. This is definitely a “suburban” trend of men giving up their manliness by begging for a woman to take him back. This type of activity does not exist in the region I came from which was an impoverish area of Brooklyn, NYC. My question is why cry over spilled milk? Since there are more women globally than men, i find it pointless to waste time on something that is broken. When a woman leaves 99% of the time even it is salvageable it will never be like when… Read more »
Oh, the places we’ll go… and which I will pin on a Google map like butterflies in amber. Super Stalk!
Thank goodness the only horrible, awful pictures of me first waking up or stepping out of the bathroom exist only in photo paper and not digitally. Lovers without boundaries know no time. But you’re right; we are lucky to have grown up before the internet.