Social Network

Originally I wasn't excited to watch The Social Network but after just beginning to watch it I found myself being really interested in the context of the movie. I also found that I could really closely relate to the book "Brave New World." A lot of the themes were the same for example the theme of identity was apparent all throughout the movie. The main character Mark Zuckerberg constantly struggled with his identity. He saw himself completely different than other people saw him. For example, he felt like he was a good guy majority of the time where as other people saw his as an asshole. He was someone that would screw them over as soon as possible; he even screwed his best friend over in the process. It was interesting to watch Marls friend groups as well as his personality change throughout the movie. At first he starts off with his close group of friends but after his girlfriend breaks up with him he freaks out and posts something really insulting about her in the internet. That same night they create an app that rates girls on who’s hotter by putting friends up next to each other and so on. After a few week he meets these brothers call the Winklevoss brothers who heard about his genius website and ask him to help create a dating app for the frats and sororities of Harvard. He then very shortly screws them over and begins working on his own app The Facebook. He begins working on the instead of the dating app and the Winklevoss’s get angry and try to sue him but can’t seem to find the evidence to convict him. While working on The Facebook the Napster finds out and offers to help which then makes Mark screw over his own friends just to get this company up and running. So by the end of the movie Mark has no friends and millions of dollars. In court he settles with his best friend as well as the Winklevoss twins but still goes on to become a multimillionaire. This brought us the question in class, “Would you screw your friends over for a million bucks”? The immediate response you usually hear is no but in reality if someone was in the position they most like would. Our world is driven by money and making money so in reality almost anyone would screw their friends over for a million dollars. Hell, some people would even screw over their parents and families for a million dollars. I couldn’t help but hear, “I can just pay them back”. Is that right? Should we be saying things like that? It makes me wonder how messed up our society really is.