“The Social Network” depicts the beginning of one of the most popular social networking sites used in the world today. The main character Mark Zuckerberg is a brilliant, but socially-estranged young man who creates a program for the revolutionary, worldwide phenomenon Facebook.com. While he rises in fame and fortune, he loses the people who matter most to him in a series of court orders, neglect, back-stabbing and public humiliation.
I find that the movie had an interesting new concept to it as it was based on an ongoing success story from less than a decade ago. While the movie may be based on actual events in the life of Mark Zuckerberg, the script was romanticized and exaggerated to meet the demands of the audience today. The movie showed no real conclusion, which leaves it open for audience interpretation. This lack of finality might represent how constant changes are being made in our technological world, to a point that “nothing is definite”. Advancements are always being made within seconds.
I haven’t come across a person in Singapore who would actually say “Facebook me!” like shown in the movie. Even so, people of all ages in Singapore use this site daily to share thoughts, music, pictures and more in the most convenient method possible. That said, we still need to be weary of what we say or put on the Internet as everything is “recorded”, shared worldwide and can come back to haunt us - particularly in places where free speech is not tolerated.
My favorite part is where Zuckerberg sits alone in the Facebook and lawyer’s offices. The scenes emphasize his loneliness and the curse of being overly-active on the virtual platform - losing the ability to socialize in the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have a million friends on Facebook. It’s the actual interpersonal interaction that counts.
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