THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Yesterday, my husband and I finally went to see the popular new movie, "The Social Network" based on the story behind the founding of the popular social networking site, Facebook. Going into the movie, I had heard all of the mixed reviews from friends and or coworkers, but I had an open mind about what I would actually experience and how I would feel about the movie after it was over.

I was pleasantly surprised in this film and think it was well done despite the fact that the movie was not 100% accurate according to the press and failed to involve the key people that the movie was based on like Mark Zuckerberg and all of the co-founders who I have never heard of until watching this movie: Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and the guy who founder Napster came along early in Facebook stages, Sean Parker who can be credited with helping Zuckerberg obtain Facebook's first venture capital funding, a whopping $500K.  From this point on Facebook started its skyrocket to where it is today.

The movie was humorous, interesting and captivated my attention as I watched the story of how three Harvard classmates started out with a simple idea of connecting all the Harvard U campus dorm students together in an online network so they could get communicate more regularly online and keep up with what their friends were doing and how this idea grew enormously from Harvard to other colleges and then to anyone who so desired to join Facebook that resulted in connecting over 500 million people around the world today. 

The film did portrait Mark as extremely bright, arrogant to many and someone who basically (or allegedly) stole the ideas that gave birth to today's Facebook from some of his Harvard classmates who were working on another social networking site and brought Mark into their project be a programmer to bring their site to life.  Now I know there are three sides to every story and I will personally never know what really happened behind the real life scenes in the launch of Facebook. However, I will say this was a great movie and potentially could give other young people or the young at heart the drive and motivation to come up with an exciting innovative idea that just may make them the next Mark Zuckerberg, 26 years old and the youngest billionaire in world who created one of the most popular websites of today.   Wow, is all I have to say.

When I left the movie and entered the restroom, many ladies were at the sinks washing their hands and discussing this film.  I overheard one lady say, "Who isn't on Facebook today and I wish it was my idea".  I found myself thinking the very same thing!

I loved this film and if you haven't seen it yet, take a look at the trailer and go check it out!

So long until my next Life in LA event.