♥ The Social Network ♥
The Social Network is a 2010 biographical drama film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by David Fincher and features an ensemble cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Joseph Mazzello, and Rooney Mara.
Aaron Sorkin adapted his screenplay from Ben Mezrich's 2009 nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires. Sorkin also makes a cameo appearance as a would-be advertiser. Neither founder Mark Zuckerberg nor any other member of the Facebook team were involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's story. The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 2010 to critical acclaim.
The film won the award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night.
The film won the awards for the Best Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director at the BAFTA, February 13, 2011.
The film has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
♥ THE START OF A MILESTONE ♥
In 2003 Erica Albright breaks up with Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. Back at his dorm, Mark writes a scathing, crudely demeaning blog entry about her, and in his drunken rage is inspired to create a website that rates the attractiveness of female students when compared to each other. He hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin, he creates a website called "FaceMash", where male students can choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Mark receives six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, "FaceMash"'s popularity and its one night creation, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection.
At first , the original name of Facebook was FaceMash. Mark Zuckerburg was just a student at Harvard University who was dreaming of having a network of people communicating with each other with the use of status updates and posts. Just like these days, Facebook became more personalized and simplified with more functions at ease. We can view pictures and watch videos more easily. Now, people especially us can now use Facebook more conveniently.
♥ OUR CRITIC Ü ♥
In the movie, what inspired Mark Zuckerberg was Erica Albright. I think we should thank her because she became the bridge to the founding of the so-called Facebook- Social networking site. Mark was so depressed that he poured out his abilities on making Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, for me was not just an extraordinary artist, but an amazing entrepreneur as well. Just thinking that Facebook- A social networking site would get that useful and famous nationwide, would help Mark Zuckerberg become rich and famous in just a moment. He got 500 million friends, but that wasn't easy because , of course reaching that milestone may need some "few enemies". Just like in the quote, "You Wont Get to 500 Million friends without having a "few enemies" because many hindrances have affected Mark Zuckerberg from progressing through. But, as I have predicted in the movie he will overcome that trial with the help of friends' aids.
Mark Zuckerberg got rich in an instant because of facebook. Thanks to his tremendous work and intelligence in software programming and HTML codes, he attained such a high attainment. I wish we could have that knowledge too so that everyone would become a unique artist- in an online way! I also liked him because he was a unique entrepreneur too. Being famous like that would make companies of software programmers deal businesses with you, just like in the film. He would profit millions because of TheFacebook . I also think this movie is linked to business because it also involves financial profits, which whom I was interested at knowing. It made entrepreneurs have an idea in business, but they need to be intelligent in software and other forms of study in computers.
The Social Network also gained A Social Impact. It let us knew how communicating would be made easier and more private. That is why adding friends in facebook let us open links to friends of friends. We can discover more friends, and I thank Mark Zuckerberg for that. This wasn't easy as I have said, but he managed to make his ideas into reality.Facebook let us mingle also with peers,relatives,classmates and give updates for that particular day. We can also share our ideas,emotions, and even relationship statuses using wall posts and stats. Just like in the movie , Sean Parker should have been in a relationship with Christy Lee, but he didn't update his status that made Christy furious. We can also put Family Relationships like our Mother, Father, Siblings, Cousins & more. In that way people may know what kind of person you are. What you reflect in Facebook also reflects your personality.That's what I think Facebook is for - to make this big World a Small world.
♥ RELEVANCE TO TECHNO DESIGNER Ü ♥
If we can relate this movie to Techno Designer, I think the relevance to it was the use of HTML CODING in making Thefacebook. Mark Zuckerberg also uses tags in making the so-called leading Social Networking in the world- Facebook. It also involves the use of framesets, thumbnails for our photos, HTML Encoding with the use of tags & web designing. These are what Facebook is composed of. Mark Zuckerberg pushes himself to the max just to finish Facebook for communicating and friendships. He used his knowledge in web designing to make facebook more presentable and neat. He used Blue and White color as the main color of it. He used also his knowledge of thumbnailing for our photos so that we can store our photos in an album and for everyone to view. HTML tags were still difficult for me, but Mark Zuckerberg persisted until he combined all his ideas to make such a grandiose of a Social Networking Site.
In this movie, we learned something very important. What I learned is that we should not make Facebook our only "life" because when you are addicted to Facebook too much, that will be bad for us. We know that these modern days Facebook is the most trending Social Networking Site, but, LET US NOT ABUSE IT. Let us spend time with other things, because Facebook is not your life, its just a Website for everyone to communicate. We can do more things such as bonding with our families, our friends,classmates and many more. It is also bad for our health because sometimes Internet devastates us that make us addicted to it, especially facebook. I admit that sometimes I skip & forget about eating because of too much busyness . So let us use facebook in a more righteous way, without harming us physically and mentally. Let's use Facebook not all the times of our life but in a balanced manner. Let's enjoy while having developments within a balance. So, what's on your mind??? Ü
♥ SUBMITTEDTO : Ms. Elaine Alvaran ♥
♥ SUBMITTED BY : Jhiem Melendres & Albert Urdaneta Ü
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