facebook movie coming soon -- looks better than I expected

[Darren Dirt]

trailer here, somehow it's kinda spine-tingling (in a good way) but maybe I'm just easily emotionally manipulated by good editing...
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/07/watch-the-social-network-trailer.html

[Darren Dirt]

trailer here, somehow it's kinda spine-tingling (in a good way) but maybe I'm just easily emotionally manipulated by good editing...
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/07/watch-the-social-network-trailer.html

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/10/between-two-ferns-with-the-social-network-music
The URL says it all... and if you have never seen Zach Galifianakis' brilliant parody series of little chat/interview bits before this, go on the internets and find and watch every last one of them. Now.

[Darren Dirt]

So I guess the movie resulted in a lot of people asking "what did this young man do to our culture" and apparently Time magazine said "lots".

http://www.eweek.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=65587&pop=1&page=0&catid=37

But is Facebook really much more than just the modern version of the golden age of BBSes?

Now that Mark Zuckerberg has been given the rare honor of being named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, perhaps it's time to reflect on how this young man moved from creating a Web site to help college students connect to building Facebook into a global social and cultural phenomenon.

According to the editors at Time, Zuckerberg and Facebook have fundamentally changed the way people interact with each other and it's changed how we define the concept of community.

The natural question, of course, is why Facebook? What is it about this online service that seems to draw people in? Fundamentally, I think that people have a deep desire to feel part of a community of like minded souls. Facebook lets you stay in touch with people that might otherwise drift away either because of distance of time commitments. It provides an asynchronous communications service that doesn't require you be at your computer (or your cell phone or whatever) at the same time as your friend as you must with instant messaging. Instead, you provide updates so people who are your friends can stay up to date on your activities.

This is not the first time such a service has existed and in each case these on-line services proved remarkably popular, given the technology and infrastructure of the time. When I first signed up for CompuServe around 1981, I noticed something similar. The forums on that service provided a sense of community, and despite the hurdles of 300-baud modems and text only displays, and the need to own something few people had -- a computer -- those forums provided their own popular community.

...It's also different in that you got to choose your friends. While anyone on Facebook can request to be considered a friend, you have the ability to accept their offer or ignore them. This means that you can avoid some of the most disagreeable parts of the old forums and conferences -- the mindless flame war.

...The nicest thing about Facebook is that you don't need to be a Web development expert to use it.

And perhaps that's the key to Facebook's success. There's no longer a high bar to admission -- all you need is a cell phone. There's no massive learning curve as there was for the earlier conferencing systems and bulletin boards. You just go there and you use it. That alone has a lot to say about how Zuckerberg earned his honor and Facebook its success.

A deserved honor? Or just mainstream media jumping onto a bandwagon to which many net dwellers are saying "meh"?

[Darren Dirt]

Fincher = best director choice... WHEW!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1943668