Remember life without Facebook? Media Meditation #3

Preview of The Social Network

The Social Network is all about the creation of Facebook, a popular and very addicting site. It explains how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook while he was at Harvard. Facebook is an example a personal shift because the millions of users who have accounts are able to participate by posting pictures and information about themselves, and they can interact with other users or their friends.

Because of pacing, my brain, specifically the neocortex could not process everything I saw. There were a few times that I paused and had to rewind the DVD to catch some of the parts I thought would be important for this post. There was so much information in this movie for the neocortex to process. It went back and forth between Mark Zuckerberg’s time at Harvard developing Facebook, to the meetings he had for the lawsuits, and his time in California.

Cultural shift is also an example that was shown in the movie. We hardly have any privacy, especially when it comes to the Internet. Everything can be monitored. The movie showed how they used Mark Zuckerberg’s blog as evidence to his plans.

The production techniques were also done well. They played intense music during intense parts, like the crew competition, and parties. The music they used affects the limbic brain because it can bring emotion to people depending on how the music makes them feel.

The movie included a lot of scientific evidence about Facebook. An example that I was able to catch while watching the movie is that one site Mark Zuckerberg created, Facemash, had over 22,000 hits in 2 hours.

I thought this was a really good movie, and different than the genres I usually watch. I’m glad I made the decision to see The Social Network. I felt like I could connect to the movie because some of the cast included people that I had not seen in movies before. It was not a movie filled with big Hollywood stars that you see all over magazines and in all the new movies that come out.

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some of the cast of The Social Network

This was a good movie, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about a social networking site used by millions of people for hours each day. I’ve never really thought about everything that went into creating Facebook, but it is an interesting story to hear!