This movie The Social Network was a very intriguing movie and I absolutely loved it. This film was about the creation of Facebook and all it’s legal problems in the beginning of its launch. Seeing Mark Zuckerberg talk in person and having him being portrayed in a movie made me see him in a different light. I did not know how committed an intellectual Zuckerberg was, but also how anti-social he was compared to the people around him. It did not seem as though he knew the definition of what being a friend was and for him to make a platform for friends and potential lovers to connect is very ironic. Mark Zuckerberg states, “People want to go online and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Eduardo, I’m not talking about dating site, I’m talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online” (The Social Network). Once Zuckerberg and Eduardo created “The Facebook” for various colleges to connect with other college students on campus it became a successful platform to interact on. “The Facebook” became so interactive that Zuckerberg began to make the website available for colleges internationally to connect to. Zuckerberg began to face problems after he launched “The Facebook” knowing that the similar idea came from two Harvard Brothers who asked for his help to create “Harvard Connect” uniquely for Harvard University. Zuckerberg was sued later on by the brothers once they couldn’t get help from the President of Harvard University for the reasoning of theft. Zuckerberg was also in connections with Sean Parker, the founder of Napster, which aided in problems and triumphs for the website and himself.
Sean Parker states “Private behavior is a relic of a time gone by, and if somehow, someway, you’ve managed to live your life like the Dalai Lama, they’ll make shit up. Because they don’t want you, they want your idea” (The Social Network). Facebook definitely created an environment in which your business is no longer private and it is rare to be private. social media has created the idea that uploading, posting and retweeting daily is a norm. Facebook has been implementing more ads and regulated posts for people to interact with which can be highly addicting.When Zuckerberg moved out to California and got more help from Sean Parker, Eduardo’s position as CFO was being downplayed. Eduardo went from owning over 30% of shares of Facebook to 0.03%. This caused troubles for Zuckerberg because he had to deal with two legal issues because of Facebook. but now those cases are far behind him and are solved, and now it is a billion dollar business that is booming off of the population of the world’s internet browsers. These social networks haven’t implemented ways to lessen people’s time off of the network to practice self awareness and mental health checks. We are the guinea pigs for social media and the digital age.
Do you think Facebook was inevitable to be created for this digital era?
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I think Facebook, or something like it, was pretty much inevitable. Technology is constantly evolving and with the existence of sites like Myspace already underway, a bigger and better version was only a matter of time. I remember going from Myspace to Facebook as a kid-it was almost seen to my peers and I as a sign of aging. I think that says a lot for the effect that social media has on our lives, especially growing up with it. I used to be able to look up my name on Google and find my old myspace profile picture. But with the ever growing and changing technology, it’s been wiped away.
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Yes, I think Facebook was going to be inevitable for the huge amount of people that participate in social media. The way Facebook connects to people is very sufficient and fast. Facebook has made good business partnerships with other top companies for instance Google and other sign-up companies that help with applications. People play a big part in what stays irrelevant or not but technology will keep developing.
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