When I started reading this article I actually laughed a little bit. I had seen the movie, The Social Network, earlier this year, and the entire article chronicled events exactly as the movie had. I thought it was funny, because it was like reading the script to the movie. The movie was excellent and has been nominated for a lot of awards since it's debut to the big screen, and I actually loved it. To think that some person could just make an entire site up while they are intoxicated and upset is mind boggling.
Facebook has been a staple in my life since my senior year of high school. Before that time, I had heard nothing about it. My older cousin had a facebook but said that you had to be a college student to use it. I couldn't wait until I went to college, just to use this site. The funny things is, until that year Myspace had taken up a majority of my life. I grew up in a household that had two computers. One for my dad, and the other one for the rest of the family. I was on the computer for hours after school had ended, doing homework, talking to my friends through AIM going into chat rooms, and all that social networking stuff. When facebook came out, I thought it would be awesome. I could connect with other people from my college, and other colleges around the country. The article talked a lot about the personal choices that Mark Zuckerberg made when creating facebook. He angered a lot of people, and has been sued and in legal battles for most of it's success, and he is only 24 years old. I don't know if I would be able to do that sort of thing, to cheat people out of something they may or may not have come up with, but when I started using facebook none of the legal stuff came to my mind.
Using it today, I sort of laugh to think how it originally was. Now it is just a bunch of people whining about their lives, and posted drunken pictures of themselves. Before people under the age of 17 could have a facebook I think it was tons better. Now there are just games, and advertisements, and twelve year old girls asking me to be their friend, when before I think it was used more as a networking site. To keep in touch with your fellow classmates after you had moved on to a career and life. I may be wrong, but the article really showed just how simple it is to make a website that has an entire country clamoring to use it.
Yes! I didn't discover Facebook until I was a senior. I remember how cool I thought MySpace was. Then I made a Facebook but none of my friends were on it, so I was stuck with MySpace until everyone gave up on it.
ReplyDeleteI heard about the Social Network movie and I wanted to see it but never got around to it. Now I'm going to have to take the effort and see how it ties in with this article.