The Social Network
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Datu, Christine Carla T. IV- BSBMMM
San Beda College Alabang E-Commerce
The Social Network
The Social Network isn't really about Facebook, but in fact, this movie seems mostly about the transition of power from the traditional elites embodied in the handsome, whom the Harvardfocused Winklevoss twins. Olympic-level athletes who accuse Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of ripping off their ideas to create the platform. Instead, that power has shifted to the geeks. Computer geniuses like Zuckerberg who know what the cyber-surfing masses want, because it's also what they feel in their bone marrow a way to connect with their peers in an environment where they get to be the cool, in control alpha dogs. It shows the Zuckerberg character combining a freakish programming ability with a pathological lack of social skills and a shark's brutal focus on his own goal, which is creating the most impactful online platform possible. On its surface, this movie can be defined about greed and ego and how money and fame change people. And that s all true. On the larger level, however, I think this is also a film about what happens when success literally happens overnight to individuals who haven t even completed the college experience. There is a cost for great success and a cost for changing the world. Oftentimes, those costs are paid in relationships. That s true for widget salesmen, and it s true for founders of social networks. This underscores how clever the tagline for the film really is: ³You don¶t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.´
San Beda College Alabang E-Commerce
The Social Network
The Social Network isn't really about Facebook, but in fact, this movie seems mostly about the transition of power from the traditional elites embodied in the handsome, whom the Harvardfocused Winklevoss twins. Olympic-level athletes who accuse Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of ripping off their ideas to create the platform. Instead, that power has shifted to the geeks. Computer geniuses like Zuckerberg who know what the cyber-surfing masses want, because it's also what they feel in their bone marrow a way to connect with their peers in an environment where they get to be the cool, in control alpha dogs. It shows the Zuckerberg character combining a freakish programming ability with a pathological lack of social skills and a shark's brutal focus on his own goal, which is creating the most impactful online platform possible. On its surface, this movie can be defined about greed and ego and how money and fame change people. And that s all true. On the larger level, however, I think this is also a film about what happens when success literally happens overnight to individuals who haven t even completed the college experience. There is a cost for great success and a cost for changing the world. Oftentimes, those costs are paid in relationships. That s true for widget salesmen, and it s true for founders of social networks. This underscores how clever the tagline for the film really is: ³You don¶t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.´
