READER: ...
BLOGGER: What no slick comment or judgment for me today?
READER: I’m waiting for the catch.
BLOGGER: Oh! Look who’s learning. Well, it’s not just about Facebook today it’s about the movie that did it’s best to capture the making of Facebook and the Rights and ownership complications behind the network: The Social Network. This movie starring Jesse Eisenberg gives a good rendering of Mark Zuckerberg and how he came up with the idea for Facebook and all its features back in 2004; coming from a 2010 standpoint they still show the vast difference in comparison from the online index of the early 00s to the status uploading, wall posting site it has become.
The audience comes into the story during two intermingled legal disputes between Zuckerberg and his former friend Eduardo Saverin and between him, the Winklevoss twins, and their friend Divya Narendra on the matter of ownership of the idea and Saverin's co-ownership of the business model and as a CFO through funding the project. It does well in introducing Mark Zuckerburg's character and inspiration from the beginning where we see his computer prowess making a (though sexually degrading to women) perfect and high trafficked site for rating women while drunk at 4am. But taking the idea of your school's online index and turning into a request only site where you can explore other people's pages and add friends then later introducing statuses so people know if you're single or not is a very smart way to make the social structures of college work for you.
READER: Wasn't the problem you mentioned before the fact that he was in a legal dispute for the idea? So doesn't that mean he doesn't own the idea?
BLOGGER: That's where the idea of ownership which I talked about in the last blog comes into play. The Winklevosses and Divya came up with the Harvard connection which is just basically an online index; Facebook or theFacebook (which was the name for a bit back then) takes the index and makes it interactive. It's definitely condescending how he conveys this but Jesse Eisenberg in that starring role said it best when he said: "if you came up with the idea of Facebook, you would have invented Facebook." It's cruel and you can see the actual lack of social skill that Zuckerberg possesses, and it's true that you could say they had the idea but technically Facebook is a different and more reformed, solid version of the abstract idea they had and left for him to play with. It's a separate concept from the Winklevosses and Divya's. It's hard to tell from this standpoint of the audience because only the actual people in the incidence could know.
Overall, it was a good film. I enjoyed how they decided to portray Zuckerburg. I believe it was a fairly accurate representation of Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Sean Parker, and other people in Zuckerburg's life and history and, though somewhat intensified, an adequate showing of how the events went down emotionally and were thought out in everyone's head. Until next time!
The audience comes into the story during two intermingled legal disputes between Zuckerberg and his former friend Eduardo Saverin and between him, the Winklevoss twins, and their friend Divya Narendra on the matter of ownership of the idea and Saverin's co-ownership of the business model and as a CFO through funding the project. It does well in introducing Mark Zuckerburg's character and inspiration from the beginning where we see his computer prowess making a (though sexually degrading to women) perfect and high trafficked site for rating women while drunk at 4am. But taking the idea of your school's online index and turning into a request only site where you can explore other people's pages and add friends then later introducing statuses so people know if you're single or not is a very smart way to make the social structures of college work for you.
READER: Wasn't the problem you mentioned before the fact that he was in a legal dispute for the idea? So doesn't that mean he doesn't own the idea?
BLOGGER: That's where the idea of ownership which I talked about in the last blog comes into play. The Winklevosses and Divya came up with the Harvard connection which is just basically an online index; Facebook or theFacebook (which was the name for a bit back then) takes the index and makes it interactive. It's definitely condescending how he conveys this but Jesse Eisenberg in that starring role said it best when he said: "if you came up with the idea of Facebook, you would have invented Facebook." It's cruel and you can see the actual lack of social skill that Zuckerberg possesses, and it's true that you could say they had the idea but technically Facebook is a different and more reformed, solid version of the abstract idea they had and left for him to play with. It's a separate concept from the Winklevosses and Divya's. It's hard to tell from this standpoint of the audience because only the actual people in the incidence could know.
Overall, it was a good film. I enjoyed how they decided to portray Zuckerburg. I believe it was a fairly accurate representation of Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Sean Parker, and other people in Zuckerburg's life and history and, though somewhat intensified, an adequate showing of how the events went down emotionally and were thought out in everyone's head. Until next time!
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