Facebook Reflection

There are over 1.7 billion monthly active users on Facebook, each with stories and ideas to share with all of their friends and the rest of the world. The site has successfully brought over 20% of the entire world population together on a single, massively complex, incredibly popular, socially driven hub of data. Though everyone and their mother knows what Facebook is, the story of its creation, and the struggle for its rights and ownership, is a story far less known. The film The Social Network is that story (with a little bit of Hollywood sprinkled in). The Social Network is not only my favorite movie of all time, but it is also the reason I am at Dakota State University. The movie begins with an idea, but not the idea of Facebook. Instead, it was an idea derived from a night of drunk blogging and boredom, an idea that Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg called Facemash. Mark was angry at his now ex-girlfriend Erica for ending their relationship, so he decided to create a site that would anger any girl that came across it. The idea of Facemash was comparison, a very simple concept that would cause a lot of hate and opportunity. The webpage would display the photos of two female Harvard students and the user was to choose the “hotter” of the two. Mark thought that his friends and neighbors would enjoy the

The curly unkempt hair, socks and sandals apparel, and sassy “I’m smarter than you” attitude combine to make the ideal nerd. The witty comments and quick comebacks that leave Eisenberg’s mouth prove the intellectual capabilities and audience credibility that the character needs to share his side of the story. Mark is somewhat of a douche in the grand scheme of things, but the appeal to his ethical side, or his ethos, makes the viewers question if he is just another victim, often times leading to a sense of pity towards