The difficulty for me in watching and critiquing this film is that the subject matter of the film, Facebook, is something which I am strongly opposed to and which any of my friends would testify to my outspoken ideological opposition to. I am aware though that my generation certainly is not in agreement with me on this phenomena. But since this assignment is not to critique Facebook, I will refrain from using this blog entry as a soapbox from which I would attempt to show you all the reality of what Facebook (and other new technologies i.e. text messaging) are doing to our generation, and the effects that this is going to have on the world as a whole. So I am aware that I am biased in my critique---but this is my opinion.
(Incidentally Prof. Fischer, I believe I am going to do my research on Facebook as a perfect example of the Panoptic distribution of power in modern society, using as a primary source Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish specifically the section on Panopticism)
I imagined this film was going to be a "cliche'" Hollywood glamorization of a young "nerd" character who hits it big and betrays his closest and only friend and ends up alone with his millions of dollars....
And what can i say, it really didn't let me down. It was exactly this. I will admit that it was informational (I did not know the conditions under which Facebook materialized) and now I do. But I could have just as easily read an article or waited for Mark Zuckerberg's "memoir". The film's portrayal of Zuckerberg as an "asshole" wasn't interesting to me--and the closing scene of "I know you're not an asshole you're just trying so hard to be."---REALLY?
Needlessly to say, if I had a Facebook, I wouldn't be a "Fan" of this film.
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