The Social Network

Today I watched this movie for the first time and I can appreciate how good the movie was, but I don’t think I can explain how much second hand stress it caused me. It sounds SO dramatic, I know. But I could not stand the depiction of Mark Zuckerberg (and therefore, assuming that I also couldn’t stand him as a person) and how arrogant he was. I think the movie did a great job at giving the audience this impression from the opening scene of him completely wrecking his date.

I chose to make these two GIFs because I think it perfectly depicts how in control this man was from start to finish of creating Facebook. He created this site, dealt with a lawsuit against him where he showed no nerves or intentions of fixing any misdoings to those around him, and became the youngest billionaire.

Frankly I made this to really emphasize how much of a mood my boy Mark put me in.

I added these last two to show how little Mark cared for people, how easy and casual it was for him to hack into a site and not feel remorse, and how easy it was for Mark to go against his only friend. Bonds in friendship are so important and should be treated like that but it was more important for Mark to make money than have his friend by his side.

I would say that the biggest thing I could appreciate with this movie and those in it, would be how brilliant some minds work. Watching people completely understand coding something and creating a website from scratch, then knowing how to advertise it and grow it within hours absolutely baffled and amazed me. It was also very interesting to see that a social media outlet that I personally use every day began with betrayal and lawsuits. It isn’t something that I ever casually heard about or read about. I think when there is a topic that is not in my scope of interest, I tend to ignore the backstory. I wish I would have looked into the story of Facebook earlier and read more about it. This man created a website that made him become insanely rich at a younger age than I am now…. Makes me wonder when I will become a billionaire as it is overdue (-: