- Read the following review and answer the questions below.
THE SOCIAL NETWORK REVIEW
Is ‘The Social Network’ really a film that defines a generation, or is it simply the story of how Facebook made some Harvard students into billionaires? Read our review and find out.
Facebook is a social media giant that has changed the world. It talks about different topics: from how people share their lives, to how people sell businesses, products and even their own talents. In fact, Facebook is so common in our modern digital age that it even has the power to change culture, pop-culture, art, politics, and in rare cases, even religion.
The basic story behind the invention of Facebook is already well known: In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) came up with an idea: take the social experience of Harvard and turn it into a website in a way that other sites like MySpace and Friendster had never imagined. Together with two of his programmer mates, and his best friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) Zuckerberg created “The Facebook,” an early draft of what would eventually become the social networking we know today.
Of course with the rise of this idea come problems, and Zuckerberg’s meteoric rise to fame turns into multiple legal conflicts and destroys personal relationships. Being at the front position of a trend can be a lonely experience.
- Have you seen the film?
- Did you know before watching the film that it was about the origins of facebook?
- What is the film really about?
- How was facebook invented?
- Who invented it?
- How did Zuckerberg create facebook?
2. What do you know about the following mass media phenomena?Write 5 sentences using the passive voice.
