The Social Network

A few weekends ago, I went to my hometown and watched The Social Network. I must say, this movie was one of my favorite movies I've seen all year. The movie begins with Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University who can be cinsidered a genius in my eyes. He is a very smart and successful computer nerd who is always working on computers. He and his group of friends set up different websites that allow students at Harvard to veiw them for a short period of time before they shut down the site. They set up a site, the rates girls on campus. It compares the girls beauty to other girls. The website gains so much attention in so little time that it actually crashed the Harvard network. The school catches him and he is put on academic probation, the worse part is now that every female on campus knows what he did and can't stand him! Although, after Mark created this website, he caught the attention of the Winklevoss twins. They wanted to create a website that allowed all Harvard students to connect with eachother. They hired Mark to put the website together. Later, Mark pretty much steals the idea from the twins and comes up with his own site caleld The Facebook. He got into business with his bestfriend at the time and made it a huge success at Harvard. They slowly began to expand the website throughout other college universitys until it became huge as is it today. The twins try everything they can to get credit for the site and to get Mark in trouble but they can't do it. They eventually hire an attorny and take him to court. This is all occuring while Mark and his bestfriend meet with the creator of Napster (Justin Timberlake). Eventually Mark and his bestfriend who share the company break apart and the Napster creator basically takes the bestfriends place in the company.Then soon after Mark's bestfriend also sues Mark for the rights of the creation of Facebook. Mark is then going through 2 lawsuits at the same time. He ends up settling with both of the parties involved in the lawsuit. Although he settled for a huge amount, facebook is a huge success where Mark made millions of dollars. In the final credits, it states that Mark is the youngest billionare in the world.

This movie was a fantastic movie. Everything about it, I loved. This movie had to be such a success because now a days almsot every college student has a facebook. It's simply a new way of life. The first thing many people do when they get up in the morning is check their facebooks. It's a faster way to understand everything that is going on. This movie opened my eyes to new things though. No matter what situation you are in, you most learn who you are working with. Mark simply stole the idea from the Winklevoss twins and became a billionare. Although he had to go through court and pay them, he still is a BILLIONARE! If I were the Winklevoss twins, I would be extremely upset at myself for trusting Mark with my idea. If they would of simply created the website themselves, they would now be the rich ones. Also it teaches what people will do to succeed in life. People will break friendships, such as Mark did with his bestfriend Eduardo. Mark was a businessman, who wanted his company to succeed and I understand that. But to treat your friends like that and loss friends over a job is different for me. Maybe because I haven't had a career yet, but i don't believe I could break so many relationships and tell so many lies to my friends, just for a job. Who knows though, everyones future changes at different times and people will do many things to get money. In the end, I believe this movie was a good lesson to learn for many.