The Social Network Review

Director David Fincher created an interesting tale of one of our generation's greatest entrepreneurs in his movie The Social Network. The movie goes from his time as an undergrad at Harvard up through the completion of his legal disputes. Overall, the movie was well made. Fincher's best move as director was getting Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and his associate Atticus Ross to do the score (which was the main reason I stayed awake through the movie). Reznor and Ross' contributions gave a good texture for the story and an idea of what was coming throughout the various ups-and-downs of the movie, however I thought there were key parts of the true story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook that were left unaddressed.

Such points like the $12.7 million investment by ACCEL Corporation in 2005, from namely manager James Breyer. Mr. Breyer was on the board of National Venture Capital Association with Gilman Louie the CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the CIA in 1999. In-Q-Tel's main objective is promoting data mining technologies, and they struck gold with Facebook. James Breyer also served on the board at BBN Technologies; the company who, much to Al Gore's chagrin, actually created the internet. In 2004 while Zuckerberg was starting to hit his stride and refusing to advertise on Facebook so they wouldn't lose his coveted "cool factor", Dr. Anita Jones joined the board of BBN along with Louie, and Breyer. Before joining BBN Dr. Jones served on the Board of Directors at, of course, In-Q-Tel. Also Dr. Jones was the Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, in that capacity she oversaw the actions of an entity called DARPA, the largest mind-control center in America. DARPA's headquarters are just outside of Blacksburg, Virginia where Virginia Tech is located. Virginia Tech's notorious claim to fame is the place of the largest mass murder in modern history, which I would suggest is not mere coincidence, but I digress. DARPA's profile grew exponentially in 2002 when it became public knowledge that they created the Information Awareness Office whose mission is to gather as much information on the people as possible, it is quite obvious how valuable an asset Facebook is to such an institution.

We are led to believe Mark Zuckerberg was someone who didn't have interest in making money, but rather doing something creative and as he said "cool". I mean what's cooler than selling out to corporate interests like the CIA, right? I felt the ACCEL investment was a horrible omission by David Fincher and something all Facebook users should know. They should also know that recently Facebook began giving, each time someone logs on, a cookie that tracks everywhere else on the internet one may visit and the coordinates of where you are every time something is posted. Add in the recent controversy of Facebook accessing people's text messages through the Facebook app, the simple truth becomes crystal clear. Facebook crushed other similar companies like MySpace making Zuckerberg filthy stinking rich, not because he had an original idea it's because he was the first to sell out to the multi-national corporations and happened to attend the elitist Harvard University. But no one wants to hear that because of their absurd almost hopeless addiction to his Frankenstein creation. The sheeple would rather believe in a world where Mark Zuckerberg is the hero of entrepreneurship and creative thought; even though "his idea" had already been made on MySpace and Friendster as mentioned in the movie.

The movie endears us to Zuckerberg with his portrayed Michael Cera like witty, cutesy humor and Einstein like genius; but doesn't give us a whole sense of the reality of Facebook, which is somewhere you can connect with friends of your earlier and present life. But is also an information shmorgishborg for the big brother state, a massive distraction from gaining any relevant information that would never be on mainstream media outlets but is still on the internet, and to serve as a fix for the mass addiction of narcissism. But why read a book on the true nature of physical reality or spend quality time with loved ones when I might miss the latest update on the adventures of former high school acquaintances? Facebook is a greater burden on our society than agent of social progress and the movie has a sense of misconstruing that reality. Because of this misrepresentation I wouldn't recommend this movie to friends though I do believe the technical aspects of this production are admirable.