Blog # 4: Movie Review on The Social Network

Professor Purdy

10/11/10

Blog #4

Movie Blog and Review: The Social Network

            Over break I went to go see a new movie called The Social Network, which is based on the true story of the formation of what is today known as, Facebook.  I went to see this movie late on Friday night with a few family members and friends.  We were all very excited to see the movie because we all knew about the creation of Facebook and some of us even have one of our own.  We all also knew that there was a controversial story that surrounded the creation of Facebook and could not wait to find out all about it.  This movie starts out with introducing the main character, Mark Zuckerberg, and showing how he eventually stumbled across creating Facebook.  Mark is a student Harvard University and known as a programming guru amongst his friends.  The night Mark’s girlfriend breaks up with him he goes back to his dorm and blogs about his ex-girlfriend in a really bad way and a lot of people see it.  Also while doing that he creates a degrading website that has male Harvard students compare the pictures of two female students at the university and choose which of them is better looking.  Mark’s website gets so many hits that it overloads the servers at Harvard and crashes them.  For creating this website and having the university find out about it Mark is put on academic probation for six months.  The story goes on with Mark meeting three Harvard frat boys who have a social network idea in which they need the help of Mark to create.  Mark in turn uses their idea as a basis to create his own social networking site and from there the movie takes off.  The movie explains to the audience why Mark’s friends have sued him and what has actually happened.  Overall, this movie helps to put out the true story on the creation of Facebook, which was very interesting because there are now five hundred million Facebook users and the company is worth twenty-five billion dollars!  However, at the end of this movie I was left with some unanswered questions, but all-in-all if you are a movie fan and want to find out more about the one true social network go see this movie.