The Social Network movie

It feels strange to come back from a movie and blog about it, which tells a tale about one of the most successful social networking websites, Facebook, which in the movie is portrayed to have started from someone who also blogged. Well I am glad that I went to see that movie because I learned things about website that I didn't think I would learn, that being said I knew the movie entirely wasn't going to be about how facebook works and what kind of trouble it ends up creating, or how to use facebook. What I didn't expect to learn was that the major way of a website making money is through ads and selling out, what I also didn't expect to learn was how part of being famous could lead to personal problems. I could tell by the way the movie played out that it wasn't entirely based on the true events, but as a movie it served its purpose, it was full of drama and entertainment. There were several characters in the movie which were important and none of them seemed like the bad guy, if anything the main protagonist could be the one to be blamed for all trouble that was caused. The movie starts off with Mark, the protagonist being dumped by a girl, because of his awkwardness and inability to into an exclusive club. He becomes known for hacking into Harvard's school servers and which causes him meet up with the Winklevoss twins who propose him to a website idea. In my opinion he does steal their idea and propose the same idea to his friend, Eduardo who agrees to work on it with him as a team. As the movie progresses, the website becomes more popular and other peoples interest increases in it like the Winklevoss brothers. Eventually even the founder of napster, Sean Parker gets involved, which eventually leads to a conflict between Mark and Eduardo. The movie moves back and forth in the time line to keep the audience on track about why the things were brought up during the discussions. Mark eventually gets sued by the Winklevoss brothers for stealing their website and also by his best friend Eduardo, because of excluding him out of facebook and selling more shares which eventually made him a smaller percentage of facebook. What really made this movie unique was that it shows how being part of a some kind of a social group, a cult of some sort, could lead to extreme measures. Mark originally wanted to be part of club that he couldn't get into, so he eventually he made his own with a friend but out of which he kicked him out of. My own personal opinion of the movie was that if this is anywhere close to the real events, I truly feel bad for Eduardo because he is the one who originally helped Mark build the website. As for the Winklevoss brothers, I think the also deserved the money that they eventually got and I think they should have also be considered co founders of facebook. If Mark thought that their ideas weren't good enough, or their website didn't have any potential, he should have not led them on and he should have backed out from the beginning instead of dragging them along. It was satisfying to see that the girl he was trying to impress since the beginning of this movie, and possibly the girl who could be held responsible for this entire chain of events, still hadn't added him by the end of the movie. In conclusion, I learned that no matter how cool the party is, it eventually has to be paid for by ads and pop ups. I am happy that I am taking this course because otherwise I wouldn't have a twitter account or have watched this movie, well at least not in the theaters.