Wednesday, January 5, 2011

facebook effect1

Facebook effect1
Before starting to read the facebook effect, I decided to think about how the stories of the book and the movie were different. I already knew from Class discussions that the book portrays Mark as a hero and the film portrays him as a Villon. I also found details in the reading that I do not remember from the film.
The film the social network never mentioned that Mark had siblings. I also do not remember the web page class connect. This was a way for students to see if cute girls or friends were in the class that they were taking. A student could also use this web site to plan their upcoming class season with their friends. This was likely to be in the film adaption but I can not recall it in the plot. Something else that was changed was facemash.
Facemash was an early web page invented by Mark zukerburg and his friends before facebook. In the film, this was used by the boys and their friends to rate girls. The film goes in to vivid description of Mark’s breakup with his girlfriend and a drunken rant he posted on his blog one night after breaking up with her. In the Novel, the author briefly states that there was a breakup and this left Zukerburg upset. The fact that users could compare the student’s pictures to farm animals was also glossed over in the novel. One other thing that the film changed was it’s version of facemash only used girls. The biography of facebook stated that facemash used both males and females. There is a statement saying how one boy was very happy when he read his picture was voted as acceptable. So far, Zukerburg is not painted as the vile crazy person that the film portrayed,. However, he is not described as a nice person you would be best friends with either. It does make him a little more relatable.

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