I’ve recently watched the The Social Network Movie . It’s a new movie that just came out this October and it’s an attempt to make a show business version of how facebook came to existence
The main actor in the movie is playing in the role of the actual creator of facebook.com – Marc Zuckerberg
The movie includes a lot of young actors as the whole facebook itself was started by a lot of young and innovative people who were looking to innovation and quick cash.
The main movie actor who is playing as facebook’s founder Marc Zuckenberg is shown as a very angry boy in the in between the age of 18 and 20.
This guy has a serious addiction to clubs and clubs belonging (social networks).
However because of his social status it’s quite hard for him to be part of any venerated club nearby Harvard University where he is a student in the sphere of IT at this time.
The guy is quite anti-social and is presented as a very notorious high intelligent hacker, who has the magical ability to hack and get information from various sources just in seconds.
For me as an IT guy it was quite funny to see how much biased this part of the movie is.
The main movie starts with a relation Marc Zuckenberg is already in where his girlfriend decides to leave him because of his anti-social and agressive behaviour as well as well as because of his lack of social skills.
Marc Zuckenberg is presented here as constantly being in run for something looking to do something imporant and as a hard blogger.
He somehow manages to bring up a very simple in website to mock his ex-girlfriend that just left him.
The site after being advertised via some spam techniques, quickly spreads around the Harvard students and even to external web users of the internal Harvard network and eventually overloads the harvard network.
By this silly thing Marc Zuckenberg does attract thousands of internet users to acess his silly website and thus realizes the great potential he has in building websites which might bring him profit.
Two twin brothers who are of a wealthy family happen to also stumble upon Marc’s girlfriend mocking website and gets interested by Marc’s ability to attract many visitors with his website.
At this present moment they also are working on an idea about a social network aiming to connect all internet users at harvard.
They contact him and he starts working for the guys, he takes a look at what they have written as a programming code so far and decides not to help them with their website but starts a project similar to theirs and rewrittes it from scratch, whilst he constantly postpones his e-mail answers to the brothers as well as doesn’t much care about their project anymore.
In order to start his new internet project thefacebook which is aiming to bring together young university males who are looking to have a sex for a night with girlfriend.
Everything starts like a little. Next to that Marc Zuckenberg starts getting attending different clubs like for instance Jewish communities and does contact a richer friend of him and requests him to have some money for webserver with Apache in order to be able to handle more connections on his website.
The guy who he contacts is called Eduardo Saverin and he studies business and is a old fellow of Marc.
Eduardo finds the necessary money and they launch the thefacebook website. The site starts quickly expanding in terms of users and the twin brothers who had the plan for a website similar to facebook in order to connect harvard students gets really pissed off and eventually laters gets things to court.
Eduardo tries to look for some extra sponsorship because with the expand of the website more and more money are needed for the website to continue it’s existence but canno find anybody.
Then in the movie the Napstor creator and ex-napster CEO by accident sees thefacebook website and realies the great potential behind this website.
He meets Eduardo and Marc and does attract Marc’s interest, though Eduardo strongly dislikes him.
Later on in the movie Marc does some tricky moves in which he does lie with some documents and makes Eduardo sign up a documents which let Marc become the company CEO and leaves Eduardo with a very small amount of company shares lik 0.*%
Marc does this as he is advised by Napster’s founder. Eduardo and Napster’s founder found some new investors and thefacebook continues it’s expanding march until they got a new office and they even reach the 1 000 000 users!
The company in the meantime is renamed to facebook Inc.
After a while Napster’s founder who already becomes a co-founder of facebook does gets caught by the cops because of some drugs and other terrible stuff prohibited by governmental law.
Marc is eventually very lonely the movie ends up telling the story who gets what out of the whole mess.
Quickly reviewing The Social Network movie I had to say that as an IT movie it’s not that interesting and it’s bias is quite high. So it was interesting in general because it somehow relates to computers.
And in the movie they talk about PHP, Linux, Apache, Perl, Emacs etc. but apart from that it’s completely fictionous.
