I personally have a love/hate relationship with facebook and The Social Network allowed me to understand that facebook was not just put together for all these terminologies that are used today. The movie itself as well as all the characters in it allowed the people that use and do not use facebook to understand how it has impacted society and the pros and cons of it.
What makes the movie so much more interesting and fun to watch is the simple fact that we, the audience, can relate to it. Mark is first presented to us as a nineteen year old wearing similar clothes to us and in a class room, who would have thought that he was going to to create such a thing as facebook and have almost everyone in the world create an account? Mark's very first step was blogging which is something that we are all realistically doing right now, does this mean that we also have the hopes of creating a even greater thing than facebook?
The best part about this movie is that the creator himself was not a people person and he was not socially accepted, he was socially awkward. This brings me to much thought, did he create facebook to make it easier for those that are not comfortable being face to face with people so that they can now communicate via "pokes" and "private messages?"
In my opinion facebook was merely created to build networks all throughout the world but in specifics within your own college campus and others. As facebook began to grow it became a tool where even calling a person on the phone was not seen as an option. People in present day are now not able to comfortably express themselves in person due to tools such as facebook.
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