This weekend I saw The Social Network.
I'm not any kind of official movie reviewer or anything, but I thought this movie in particular was relevant for me to talk about. Personally for me, it was a little depressing and a little inspiring. My website has been around for like, a year longer than Facebook - both I and Mark Zuckerburg started our sites with a friend in college and... well lets just say he is a hell of a lot more successful than I am. However - he did have the advantage of starting a website that is a) free and b) available for people of almost ages to use. Those two things certainly do limit the amount of people who might want to come to BurningAngel every day. 
I thought everyone did a good job acting in the movie. Justin Timberlake played the guy who started Napster, and he really did a kick ass job. As a side note I must admit that I am a little bit in love with Justin Timberlake. He has so many talents! He is like a renaissance man. But anyways- I had no idea that the guy who started Napster had his hands in Facebook. That was interesting information to find out. I liked how the movie showed the good and bad sides of Mark Zuckerburg and you weren't quite sure by the end of the movie if you liked him or hated him. American movies tend to try to force you to fall in love with the main character, and the fact that you still sorta wanted to punch him at the face and possibly have a beer with him at the end of the movie was respectable. Not to give away too much- but there was a trial going on throughout the movie. I liked the fact that the end result of the trial wasn't exactly fair, but it just was what it was. I felt like it was realistic.
I didn't go to Harvard, and I was never a computer whiz, but I did relate with Mark Zuckerburg in the sense that I eat sleep and breathe my website... and making this thing bigger and better has consumed me since day one. If he is anything like his character, I bet we would kinda get along. Even though... I will be honest... I really hate Facebook . They took my fan page down twice! Unfortunately they seemed to have left that part out of the movie. I wonder why. My fanpage really was a big turning point in the history of Facebook! I wonder what he thinks of my site! Do you think he ever looked at it?
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