360 Night at the Movies – The Social Network
There is a little movie that has been getting a lot of buzz the past few weeks. Have you heard of it? The Social Network is about the life of 20-something billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook.com. The 360 team all headed to the theater last night to check it out – we loved it! And, we’re not the only ones. The movie has been #1 for the past couple weeks and is receiving Oscar nomination buzz.
Since seeing the movie, we’ve all been wondering how much truth is in the storyline? You see, the movie is based on Ben Mezrich’s book “The Accidental Billionaires” and on court documents filed in a series of lawsuits by Zuckerberg’s fellow students from Harvard. It is NOT endorsed by Facebook or Zuckerberg, who has been quoted saying that the story is largely fiction. The friends / classmates who sued Zuckerberg claiming that he stole their idea for the website may beg to differ.
Regardless of whose idea Facebook was, what is more important is simply that it was created. Facebook has changed the way millions of people communicate – 500 million, to be exact!
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LOVED this movie & our outing. Hopefully they make a Twitter movie soon so we can do another one
Thanks for the post Elicia. I wanted to like Mark Zuckerberg more, but they didn’t paint a very sympathetic picture. If there’s any truth to the book and movie, I have to wonder how something so social came from someone who’s not. But it’s not the first or last time technology pushed our social buttons.
There is one male in this picture…