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The movie, The Social Network, is a great example of social networking. It depicts the founding of the social networking website, Facebook. This film was directed by David Fincher. This movie discusses many aspects of social networking, such as the creation of a few internet websites, and I will talk about a few that had an impact on me. “FaceMash” was one of the websites. The way it works is that two images of women are shown and male students can pick which woman is more attractive. A student named Mark created this website was put on academic probation because of the way it brought down his school network, and because of the way it was disparaged by the female community. Personally, I think a website such as “FaceMash” is very demeaning and unnecessary. Despite the fact that this website failed and was disowned by the community, in the movie, Mark gained a job as a website programmer due to his capability of simply creating this website. His discovery and exploration into the Internet world helped him to gain this job, so his endeavor wasn’t a total loss.


Another website that was involved in this movie is the creation of “The Facebook.” Regarding this website, lawsuits get involved debating who the real creator was. It was made to let people share social and personal information securely. This is definitely not true nowadays. With my experience of facebook, every wall post, comment, “like”, friend request, event invite, group request, etc. is very public, and almost anyone can find out what you’re doing, as well as when and why you’re doing it as well. Facebook has come to be – for a lack of a better word – stalker central. It is very easy to find out about peoples’ lives. I think it’s great to explore the social networks on the internet, but people should keep in mind that many random people can find out many things that you might not want them to know. In a sense, Facebook should be like a resume. Sharing your personal information is great to socialize and find new friends, but people are always watching. People get busted for pictures that come up on facebook all the time, especially for under-age drinking. Facebook has its good and bad impacts, but people should just be more careful when dealing with such a big and well-known social networking site such as this.