"The Social Network".
Just thought I’d alert everyone to a new film that was released nationwide on Friday -
“The Social Network” which is basically the story of “Facebook”, how the idea was created and developed by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) in 2003/2004.  

Having spent the last 2/3 weeks thinking about the pros and cons of social networking sites I thought I’d go along and see what it was like. I was a bit worried the film would be boring and the subject matter a bit dry to provide a screen play for a 2 hour film, but surprisingly it is quite entertaining and very interesting and gives a lot of background information into “Facebook”.

Some interesting facts and figures from the film are that Mark Zuckerburg, at 23, became the world’s youngest billionaire and “Facebook” has 500 million  users worldwide.

One of the lines that I remember vividly is, “ Omg, they haven’t got roads in Bosnia but they have Facebook!”

It’s rather interesting I think that “Facebook” develops after Zuckerburg (a Harvard under grad and computer genius who is a nerdy character with no social skills) is dumped by his date, Erica, as a “social loser” and in a drunken fit of anger posts a revenge blog about her on Harvard’s chat site which is insulting to her and her family but gets him a considerable number of reactive “hits” within minutes.

He then follows this by hacking into all the universities web records and posts pictures of all the girl students and asks the guys to vote on “Who is hot and who is not!?” and called it facemash.com. The response is overwhelming and crashes the Harvard IT system.

From this he develops the idea of “Facebook” as a social networking site for university students and  after frantic programming  the rest as we say is history – 6 years later and 500 million online friends later he is a billionaire and  what began in his dorm room becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication.

It is rather poignant at the end, albeit he is a billionaire and has developed the most revolutionary communication tool in history, he still has no “real” friends and Erica although she has her own Facebook account will not add him as a friend…………..  it’s worth a watch!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCSRxzPfXI&feature=channel