The Social Network

3peet · Jan 25, 2011

Finally watched it last night. Pheonominal movie. I'm still amazed how Zuckerberg basically told his Harvard cohorts "Look, I'm taking your idea and ther isn't shit you can do about it." Now I know that wasn't exactly how it was worded but you know what I mean.

And to see the staggering growth of this company in such a short period of time is mind boggling. Kid's not even 30 yet and he and his partners are all billionaires.

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It's an awesome story.

GoSooners · Jan 25, 2011

I also liked it quite a bit. I thought it would probably be a slamdunk to win best picture until I saw The King's Speech last night. Another very good film with some great acting.

BAGIANT · Jan 25, 2011

I don't think he stole their idea. He had his own network, and just improved it.

KingofNicotine · Jan 25, 2011

If Zuckerberg has a brain in his head he should sell Facebook now while it's at it's peak. Look at myspace. All social sites are doomed to fail eventually.

3peet · Jan 25, 2011

Good point Bagiant. After thinking about it, the creator of "Friendsters" should be considered the real genius. I still can't get over the viral growth of that site. Everyone I know (including myself) has an account. One message that kinda stuck a chord was when FB was still a concept he envisioned how your life no longer would be private because everything you do behaviorly on the web will be tracked for all your friends to see. Oh how true it's slowly becoming. Have you noticed how a giant percentage of websites which require logins allow you to log-in through your FB account?

I was on the Huffington Post the other day and I saw what articles my other friends have read in the past 2 weeks. It was all because of my FB account.

Wow.

3peet · Jan 25, 2011

The question is, "Is it at it's peak?" So many websites on the web are climbing over eachother to connect themselves to Facebook and Twitter. It's an interesting question. Is Facebook at it's peak?

kidman232 · Jan 25, 2011

thought the movie was kind of boring. interesting but boring

festeringZit · Jan 25, 2011

KingofNicotine said:
If Zuckerberg has a brain in his head he should sell Facebook now while it's at it's peak. Look at myspace. All social sites are doomed to fail eventually.

"All social sites are doomed to fail eventually"

100% wrong, you couldn't be more wrong.

KingofNicotine · Jan 25, 2011

Yes, I am right. Myspace is not at it's peak. Might still be used for some thing but it'll never be what it was back in 2005.

festeringZit · Jan 25, 2011

KingofNicotine said:
If Zuckerberg has a brain in his head he should sell Facebook now while it's at it's peak. Look at myspace. All social sites are doomed to fail eventually.

Myspace didn't fail because social sites are doomed to fail. It failed for many reasons including: poor interface design, lack of uniform layout, lack of feature development,
lack of simplicity... the list goes on.

festeringZit · Jan 25, 2011

KingofNicotine said:
Yes, I am right. Myspace is not at it's peak. Might still be used for some thing but it'll never be what it was back in 2005.

Duh.

So what if myspace is not at it's peak, that proves nothing.

festeringZit · Jan 25, 2011

Logic according to KingofNicotine:

OS/2 Operating System is not at it's peak, therefore all operating systems are doomed to fail.

or in other words:

All operating systems are doomed to fail, look what happened to OS/2.

Duh.

KingofNicotine · Jan 25, 2011

Listen, Facebook is hot now and all that but as soon as another social site comes out and takes off it'll become the hot new thing and people will flock to that. Your operating system analogy makes no sense.

festeringZit · Jan 25, 2011

KingofNicotine said:
Listen, Facebook is hot now and all that but as soon as another social site comes out and takes off it'll become the hot new thing and people will flock to that. Your operating system analogy makes no sense.

My analogy makes perfect sense. As long as a piece of software is functional, dynamic and evolves to meet peoples' needs it will continue to be successful.

KingofNicotine · Jan 25, 2011

And you think Facebook will keep evolving with the times? Myspace sure didn't.

Seymour · Jan 25, 2011

festeringZit said:
"All social sites are doomed to fail eventually"

100% wrong, you couldn't be more wrong.

I dont see Facebook going under - fvk, every politician has a FB page - but if I could get 500m I know someone else would own it

festeringZit · Jan 25, 2011

KingofNicotine said:
And you think Facebook will keep evolving with the times? Myspace sure didn't.

Facebook is already doing many things right, that myspace did not - things I already iterated in an earlier post.

I'll repeat myself: The fact that myspace failed says very little about the legitimacy of social sites succeeding in the long term, and says a lot more about
how to mismanage online web applications.

gtc08 · Jan 25, 2011

proud to say im one of the few with no facebook or twitter crap

KingofNicotine · Jan 25, 2011

We'll see. For a while it looked like myspace was invincible. Only time will tell if Facebook keeps evolving.

GoBlue34 · Jan 25, 2011

Seymour said:
I dont see Facebook going under - fvk, every politician has a FB page - but if I could get 500m I know someone else would own it

You would need a couple more zero's to even be in the ballpark

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