The Social Network

From what i can take from the movie. The movie portrays Marc Zuckerburg as an asshole pretty much who is self indulged and focused solely on the success of his website. He does not pay attention to his close friends and makes friends with people who do not really care about him like his true friend. I keep hearing that The Social Network story is a bit misleading. Though it is true that the brothers who claim that Zuckerburg stole their idea at Harvard and are still in settlement agreements in court. The Social Network for the most part is based on the real story of the development of facebook and little is fictional. It is just a Hollywood spin on the story and is making a big impact in the theaters. The director is the same guy who did "21" which is a movie about the MIT students who counted cards in vegas to cheat the game of blackjack and make money. I do not have a problem with The social network movie. Nowadays, everything is over-exaggerated and taken out of context a little bit to make room for a better outlook and final product for better entertainment. The social network was the best movie ive seen in a long time, other than the length of the movie, everything else was very entertaining and interesting. In class we discussed how people perceive time when it comes to facebook, this was portrayed in the movie in the scene of the crew race. When the old man was like, "my daughter at another school already has heard about the close lost on something called facebook". It is true that we are more connected through facebook and we are updated by the click of a button. I would suggest that you incorporate this movie into the "Technology and Culture in America" course. Since we were the first class when this movie came out we could not really go deep into its possibilities of being an academic resource. Facebook is the future and the future of this class, i think, will be based on the capabilities of facebook. I give this film, 2 thumbs up and 9.5/10. Without this extra credit assignment, i dont think i wouldve went to see this movie, i was not interested and it seemed boring. But im glad i got to experience a great movie, based on a revolution that I am apart of today.