As a movie goer I’m excited, but I don’t think the movie will have much cultural significance. My instinctive response to any news about this movie, The Social Network is to give my customary portentous eye-roll, but every so often I hear my new media professor’s voice say “It’s easier to brush things off than it is to think about them critically.” (That voice is slowly becoming my own by the way.) So I decided to write a little bit about what I think of The Social Network on my blog in order to ensure that I crack my shell of portentousness and give it real critical thought. First off The Social Network will easily get a ton of exposure and make a significant amount of money just out of the curiosity it’s 500 million users. It doesn’t matter if the movie is good or bad. I’m curious about whether or not the movie will have any sort of cultural impact, and I’m guessing it won’t because it isn’t anything more than simple Hollywood entertainment. But we won’t know that until we can look at it in historical context. It looks like a cute and funny movie that I’m sure I’ll enjoy watching, and as a movie goer I look forward to it. As someone who studies social media and new media, I really couldn’t care less about its existence. I’d be shocked if I learned anything from the movie. If I walk out of the theater with anything, it’ll probably just be a boat load of jealousy. And just because I feel like I’d be doing a disservice to this blog post by leaving out a synopsis about the movie, here it is: The Social Network is a movie based on a book called Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal which is basically a overly dramatic interpretation of the creation of Facebook. The quote I found on Techcrunch by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz sums up the movie very well.“A lot of exciting things happened in 2004, but mostly we just worked a lot and stressed out about things; the version in the trailer seems a lot more exciting, so I’m just going to choose to remember that we drank ourselves silly and had a lot of sex with coeds.”As I said “simple Hollywood entertainment.”

As a movie goer I’m excited, but I don’t think the movie will have much cultural significance.

My instinctive response to any news about this movie, The Social Network is to give my customary portentous eye-roll, but every so often I hear my new media professor’s voice say “It’s easier to brush things off than it is to think about them critically.” (That voice is slowly becoming my own by the way.) So I decided to write a little bit about what I think of The Social Network on my blog in order to ensure that I crack my shell of portentousness and give it real critical thought.
First off The Social Network will easily get a ton of exposure and make a significant amount of money just out of the curiosity it’s 500 million users. It doesn’t matter if the movie is good or bad. I’m curious about whether or not the movie will have any sort of cultural impact, and I’m guessing it won’t because it isn’t anything more than simple Hollywood entertainment. But we won’t know that until we can look at it in historical context. It looks like a cute and funny movie that I’m sure I’ll enjoy watching, and as a movie goer I look forward to it. As someone who studies social media and new media, I really couldn’t care less about its existence. I’d be shocked if I learned anything from the movie. If I walk out of the theater with anything, it’ll probably just be a boat load of jealousy.

And just because I feel like I’d be doing a disservice to this blog post by leaving out a synopsis about the movie, here it is: The Social Network is a movie based on a book called Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal which is basically a overly dramatic interpretation of the creation of Facebook. The quote I found on Techcrunch by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz sums up the movie very well.

“A lot of exciting things happened in 2004, but mostly we just worked a lot and stressed out about things; the version in the trailer seems a lot more exciting, so I’m just going to choose to remember that we drank ourselves silly and had a lot of sex with coeds.”


As I said “simple Hollywood entertainment.”