You can't throw a cordless mouse more than 2 feet without hitting someone on Facebook. Or as it narrowly escaped being named, 'The Facebook'. Mark Zuckerberg co-founder and CEO was not necessarily portrayed in a negative or positive light in my eyes. He just came across as a hurt and vengeful jilted lover. He had the advantage of being a computer whiz and access to the brainchild of his roomate Eduardo Saverin. Show me one person who would not build a website exploiting the female students at Harvard University when afforded the opportunity? What saint would resist hacking into said school's database, and using the pictures and names of the female students, create a girl vs. girl themed site? And who could ever resist calling that site "FaceMash"? I don't know about you guys but I would have to be tied down to keep myself from being naughty. All joking aside while I am sure not many of us would go to such lengths, I don't think that the movie showed Mark in any other light than that he was a hurt man and was just trying to lash out at the female that hurt him. He did it the way most of us usually do, irrationally. But he was lucky enough to flip the venture, which earned him six months academic probation, into the huge success that it is today.
Of course, no movie is compelling without some sort of intrigue (corporate?). Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, accuse Mark of stealing their idea. They claimed that Mark had agreed to work with them on a similar site, Harvard Connection. All the legal bru-haha kind of bored me to be honest.
I am not sure if Facebook can possibly get any bigger, but I am sure that alot of people probably flocked to the site. Sheer curiosity would be my guess; maybe the movie urged them to give Facebook a second glance once they were given a more human face to the concept behind the popular site. It could only have been a positive impact, I would think.
Mark's response, due to what I took away from the way he was portrayed in the movie, did not surprise me. He still comes across as a socially awkward person. His responses could be taken as rude or inappropriate but I just see it as him bumbling his way through the real world. He is not stuck behind a computer where coding is his top priority. He has no idea how to deal with the intricacies of human interaction. He seems to be deflecting from actually giving a concrete reaction, which leads me to think maybe the portrayal is a bit closer to home that he would like to admit. People may feel that he is detached, but I wonder if it would be in the sense that he is just a kid that hit it rich, on an idea he had to get back at his girl for dumping him.
Considering that he is filthy rich, I would say he may want to get a speech writer. He has no clue it seems as to how to speak without making people either roll their eyes or walk away mid-sentence. But that is something that I am sure time can fix.
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