I just saw this movie this weekend, and I was really surprised by it. My first impression was that it would be just a boring movie about some computer nerd who one day out of nowhere just decided to make "Facebook". In actuality, it was much more than that and it turned out to be quite a great movie. "The Social Network" is based on some true events dealing with how Facebook was created. The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said that a lot of the movie was fairly exaggerated and not made out like the actual story. However, there was an actual lawsuit from the Winklevoss Brothers who accused him of stealing their idea, and they made over 65 million dollars from it. The cast in this movie includes Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Rashida Jones, and Armie Hammer. The main character, Mark Zuckerberg, is a very bright and nerdy student at Harvard University. In 2003 he gets the idea to make a website where students all around Harvard can go to, to rate the attractiveness of female undergraduate students attending Harvard. He did so, along with the help of his mathematical genius friend, Eduardo Saverin, who in turn helped him to figure out the computer algorithm for the access of his website, FaceMash. Before you know it the website is live, and up and running. In just under a couple of hours, FaceMash already had over 22,000 hits, so much that the networked crashed. Later on, the Harvard administers find out that it was Mark Zuckerberg's fault for the crashing of their network due to high traffic, giving him 6 months of academic probation.
Mark Zuckerberg soon gets a lot of attention for setting up this sight and is eventually sought out by a group of club members at Harvard. These guys included, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. They were interested in seeing if he would consider setting up a Harvard Connection social network, called "ConnectU”, which would be targeted to Harvard students who had the email service "harvard.edu". In this you could set up your own profile, where you could chat with friends and upload pictures for them to see. It had some of the same characteristics that Facebook now has today. The instant the Winklevoss’s and Narendra asked if Zuckerberg was interested in creating this site, he said yes. More excited than ever about this idea, he ignored the twins and Divya, creating the website himself, for his own benefit, because he believed he could do a much better job of it without them, seeing as though their team could not handle its complexities. Mark receives help from his friend Eduardo Saverin, who sponsors the initial costs of running the website. They came to the agreement of splitting their shares in the website: 70 percent for Mark Zuckerberg and 30 percent for Eduardo Saverin. After nearly a week of putting it together, it was finally finished and streamed live across the Harvard Network. This soon becomes very popular in just days all across Harvard, making Zuckerberg one of the most well-liked students there. Of coursed angered by Mark Zuckerberg’s actions, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra will all try to sue him for stealing their idea for the website. This movie will progress into the rapid rise of Facebook’s popularity, the loss of friendships, and lawsuits against Zuckerberg’s company, Facebook. It was really a great movie! You guys will probably love it. It's also very interesting to see how this one website became so popular, so fast. Here’s a preview of the movie that you are welcome to check out: "The Social Network". Hope you enjoy this one!
Mark Zuckerberg soon gets a lot of attention for setting up this sight and is eventually sought out by a group of club members at Harvard. These guys included, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. They were interested in seeing if he would consider setting up a Harvard Connection social network, called "ConnectU”, which would be targeted to Harvard students who had the email service "harvard.edu". In this you could set up your own profile, where you could chat with friends and upload pictures for them to see. It had some of the same characteristics that Facebook now has today. The instant the Winklevoss’s and Narendra asked if Zuckerberg was interested in creating this site, he said yes. More excited than ever about this idea, he ignored the twins and Divya, creating the website himself, for his own benefit, because he believed he could do a much better job of it without them, seeing as though their team could not handle its complexities. Mark receives help from his friend Eduardo Saverin, who sponsors the initial costs of running the website. They came to the agreement of splitting their shares in the website: 70 percent for Mark Zuckerberg and 30 percent for Eduardo Saverin. After nearly a week of putting it together, it was finally finished and streamed live across the Harvard Network. This soon becomes very popular in just days all across Harvard, making Zuckerberg one of the most well-liked students there. Of coursed angered by Mark Zuckerberg’s actions, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra will all try to sue him for stealing their idea for the website. This movie will progress into the rapid rise of Facebook’s popularity, the loss of friendships, and lawsuits against Zuckerberg’s company, Facebook. It was really a great movie! You guys will probably love it. It's also very interesting to see how this one website became so popular, so fast. Here’s a preview of the movie that you are welcome to check out: "The Social Network". Hope you enjoy this one!
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