The Social Network Movie Review (A biased
documentary about How facebook came to existance)
I've recently watched the
The Social Network Movie
. It's a new movie that just came out this October and it's an
attempt to make a show business version of
how facebook came to
existence
The main actor in the movie is playing in the role of the actual
creator of
facebook.com -
Marc Zuckerberg
The movie includes a lot of young actors as the whole facebook
itself was started by a lot of young and innovative people who were
looking to innovation and quick cash.
The main movie actor who is playing as
facebook's founder Marc
Zuckenberg is shown as a very angry boy in the in between the
age of 18 and 20.
This guy has a serious addiction to clubs and clubs belonging
(social networks).
However because of his social status it's quite hard for him to be
part of any venerated club nearby
Harvard University where
he is a student in the sphere of IT at this time.
The guy is quite anti-social and is presented as a very notorious
high intelligent hacker, who has the magical ability to hack and
get information from various sources just in seconds.
For me as an IT guy it was quite funny to see how much biased this
part of the movie is.
The main movie starts with a relation Marc Zuckenberg is already in
where his girlfriend decides to leave him because of his
anti-social and agressive behaviour as well as well as because of
his lack of social skills.
Marc Zuckenberg is presented here as constantly being in run for
something looking to do something imporant and as a hard
blogger.
He somehow manages to bring up a very simple in website to mock his
ex-girlfriend that just left him.
The site after being advertised via some spam techniques, quickly
spreads around the Harvard students and even to external web users
of the internal Harvard network and eventually overloads the
harvard network.
By this silly thing Marc Zuckenberg does attract thousands of
internet users to acess his silly website and thus realizes the
great potential he has in building websites which might bring him
profit.
Two twin brothers who are of a wealthy family happen to also
stumble upon Marc's girlfriend mocking website and gets interested
by Marc's ability to attract many visitors with his website.
At this present moment they also are working on an idea about a
social network aiming to connect all internet users at
harvard.
They contact him and he starts working for the guys, he takes a
look at what they have written as a programming code so far and
decides not to help them with their website but starts a project
similar to theirs and rewrittes it from scratch, whilst he
constantly postpones his e-mail answers to the brothers as well as
doesn't much care about their project anymore.
In order to start his new internet project
thefacebook which
is aiming to bring together young university males who are looking
to have a sex for a night with girlfriend.
Everything starts like a little. Next to that Marc Zuckenberg
starts getting attending different clubs like for instance Jewish
communities and does contact a richer friend of him and requests
him to have some money for webserver with Apache in order to be
able to handle more connections on his website.
The guy who he contacts is called Eduardo Saverin and he studies
business and is a old fellow of Marc.
Eduardo finds the necessary money and they launch the thefacebook
website. The site starts quickly expanding in terms of users and
the twin brothers who had the plan for a website similar to
facebook in order to connect harvard students gets really pissed
off and eventually laters gets things to court.
Eduardo tries to look for some extra sponsorship because with the
expand of the website more and more money are needed for the
website to continue it's existence but canno find anybody.
Then in the movie the Napstor creator and ex-napster CEO by
accident sees
thefacebook website and realies the great
potential behind this website.
He meets Eduardo and Marc and does attract Marc's interest, though
Eduardo strongly dislikes him.
Later on in the movie Marc does some tricky moves in which he does
lie with some documents and makes Eduardo sign up a documents which
let Marc become the company CEO and leaves Eduardo with a very
small amount of company shares lik 0.*%
Marc does this as he is advised by Napster's founder. Eduardo and
Napster's founder found some new investors and
thefacebook
continues it's expanding march until they got a new office and they
even reach the 1 000 000 users!
The company in the meantime is renamed to facebook Inc.
After a while Napster's founder who already becomes a co-founder of
facebook does gets caught by the cops because of some drugs and
other terrible stuff prohibited by governmental law.
Marc is eventually very lonely the movie ends up telling the story
who gets what out of the whole mess.
Quickly reviewing
The Social Network movie I had to say that
as an IT movie it's not that interesting and it's bias is quite
high. So it was interesting in general because it somehow relates
to computers.
And in the movie they talk about
PHP, Linux, Apache, Perl, Emacs
etc. but apart from that it's completely
fictionous.