To be able to stay in connected with friends and family all over the world and to stay updated on current events that are going on in the world is amazing. With one of the biggest social networks that helped us get there and impacted our culture would have to be “Social Network”. Social Network is about a great phenomenal development that was created by Mark Zuckerberg, which was called the Facebook. Relationships, business and money can become tricky if not handles correctly because we my perceive someone to be trustworthy.
In the first seen of the movie Mark who’s a student at Harvard gets dumped by his girlfriend. Enraged after being dumped by his girlfriend, he goes into his dorm and takes revenge by creating a“Facemash.com”. While knocking down a few beers him somehow hacks into the Harvard student image system, and creates the website for his peers to rank girls on how good they looked. It became a big hit on campus. The Winklevoss brothers really liked what he did and contacted Mark with the hopes of working with him. Mark didn’t seem interested but seemed interested in some of their ideas that the brothers shared with him. After using some of their ideas “thefacebook.com” becomes a popular hit.
When you’re creating something epic you need to funds to complete take your project or idea of the ground. Mark was able to hire his best friend Eduardo as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. There seemed to seem some conflict later on in their relationship because Eduardo believed that the company needed some advertising while mark believed different. Mark believed that the company doesn’t need it. Mark began to set meetings and sat with Sean Parker who was well known as the founder of Napster. Parker came in the meeting with a few ideas. Some of those ideas was changing the name “thefacebook” to just “facebook.” He also suggested that mark moves to Los Angeles to continue the process of creating something so epic. While he’s in New York Eduardo moves to New York for an internship. When Eduardo comes back he becoming jealous and angry that Sean Parker is in Los Angeles. After getting into an argument he leaves and go to the bank to do the unthinkable. He cancels all of the financial support that he was providing for the business.
Sometime later Facebook becomes a hit. Eduardo and Sean signed some business papers of their contribution to the company. Later on something went wrong in the business end and Eduardo ended up not having anything. That created bad blood between him and mark because he trusted his best friend. He perceived him as loyal especially since contributed the finical part of his contribution. In chapter 3 in Perceiving ourselves and others, it says “in many cases its true; when form our perception of others. Our first impressions can be misleading.’’
In conclusion, we need to be careful how we treat each other and we should also make sure that we protect ourselves when doing business with others.
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Christine Jean-Baptiste
Film Analysis 1, The Social Network Film Analysis