not just the film and it's plot which is based on true stories by the way, but the place facebook and the internet in general plays in our generation's society
the film ended with the creator of facebook, mark zuckerberg sitting infront of his computer refreshing his browser to see if his ex-girlfriend has accepted his friend request yet. this was very telling of our generation because i know so many people who do that.
i had a friend who saw a guy who worked at a coffee shop and she would see him everyday and of course she thought he was hot so my other friend got his name and then my first friend stalked him on facebook and debated for days on whether to add him. in the end she added him on our other friends account but isnt that funny how much our internet affects us like that. that we spend our actual time on something that is just millions of pixels put together
our whole generation is made up of tiny pixels in essence. depressing, but true
i mean after i watched the social network i didn't talk about it to anyone i went on my facebook and considered updating my status but decided against it mostly because i knew i probably wouldnt get any 'likes' (more irony)
and then i went on livejournal and blogged about it (which is also ironic because that's the blogging platform mark zuckerberg used in the beginning of the film)
and NOW i am blogging about it here on blogspot
i feel like i need a stronger word for irony when talking about this
i always wonder what life will be like when my entire generation is 80 years old, will we still have facebook? will we be facebooking our classmates from our rest homes? will be 'tweeting' about our lives? will we tumblr pictures of cats?
seems very odd to think about. maybe all this technology will be dated in 60 years in the same way that vcr and analog clocks are "vintage" now..?
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