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Ethical decision
September / 22 / 2014
Persuasive essay
The social network
The social networks like Facebook actually alienate people instead of bringing them together through the isolation of sitting alone on the computer. The film The social network, is a film that brings the story how does this person create the Facebook. It is a story of entrepreneurship and theft, and of friendship and betrayal. More than anything else, it is a study of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s enigmatic creator, and the world’s youngest billionaire. Thrown into the mix are some intriguing concepts of greed, integrity, and intellectual property rights, elevating “The Social Network” to a critique of our culture. Mark Zuckerberg developed and made a decision of creating this social network that affected many people in many ways.
First, After being dumped by his girlfriend, Mark at the time a student at Harvard, takes revenge by setting up “Facemash.com”, By hacking into the Harvard student image directories, he was very intelligent and he used his intellectual advantage for creating a website enabling guys to rank girls based on their “hotness.” His project is wildly successful the flood of network traffic that night brought the Harvard campus network to its knees. Impressed by his work, the two Winklevoss brothers contact him with an idea of their own: an elite, Harvard-only online social network primarily for dating purposes. But Mark along with his friend and roommate Eduardo Andrew Garfield is not interested in creating a mediocre MySpace imitation. He took the Winklevosses’ idea and modified it, crafting a similar website but without using any of the brothers’ code. He worked very hard in this idea and TheFacebook.com became a massive success inside the campus.
Second, innovation requires money, so Mark appoints Eduardo as the company’s Chief Financial Officer, so he became the person that was dealing with the financial management of the company. A
Cited: The Social Network, Dir. David Fincher ( Columbia Pictures, 2010 )