This week we had to watch a TED Talk and “The Social Network” and they were centered around Mark Zuckerberg and his creation of Facebook. We all know have heard of Facebook, but maybe not the backstory behind. The film shows us how Zuckerberg’s road to being a billionaire cost him his one true friend and in the TED Talk shows us how Facebook went from being being a connection to the work to being filtered.

“The Social Network” a movie that I heard of, but never got the time to watch. After watching it for the first time I am disappointed I did not see it before hand. It was a great film and is an amazing story about the come up of Mark Zuckerberg someone who really was not that social, but created a social media phenomenon. From what it seemed like Zuckerberg did not really care about riches, but ended up landing in billions for the cost of a true friend. The movie actually takes place from a legal standpoint, but constantly flashes back to the past of what really happened. Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook can be deemed as accidental because he created FaceSmash just to get his mind off of a bad breakup. FaceSmash was generally a computer hack only a genius could pull off. It was meant to rate women on the Harvard campus hot or not and when it goes viral it gains the attention of these wealthy twins. After Zuckerberg connects with them the rest is pretty much history. With this sudden gain of power, fame and money this slowly destroys Zuckerberg. He finds himself in constant legal trouble because he is always looking for revenge. One lawsuit that is heavily highlighted in the film is the one regarding his former friend Eduardo someone who seemed to be the only true friend he actually had. Constantly putting up with Mark and the way he treated him he always stayed and actually cared for Mark from what I saw. So what was the point of this summary I say the point is from the movie and what it was trying to get at was that Zuckerberg lost the ability to control all aspects of his life. With his success it caused him to lose what was important to him and in the end it was a choice between the two. So what I ask everyone is if you came into sudden success like this do you think you could handle the life that comes with it?

Eli Pariser’s TED Talk expands on Facebook and what it was intended to do and now what it is shifting to. Like Zuckerberg’s innovation was meant to do it was a new way for the world to connect with one another at the time. Pariser acknowledges this and explains how as he was growing up facebook improved society. He uses his political standpoint of how he is a progressive and Facebook helped him meet more conservatives. Nowadays everything is filtered to you and this unique way to meet others is slowly drifting away. We see it everywhere you ever wonder when you search something up and you go on another application and there is an advertisement for it this is why. Facebook is not the only social media platform and engine doing this either this is what Google does as well. This isolation of the web is taking away the connectivity we all want. In my opinion we should be given some control of our internet. Not all intentions are bad and we want to be able to connect on a further level.

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