personal identity
Personal Identity
The Social Network, a film raved about as “the Facebook movie” but it really isn’t all about Facebook, it talks about it and its the story behind it but it goes deeper than that. It speaks to the viewers about personal identity. Throughout the movie greed, friendship, betrayal, and envy are portrayed very accurately.
The irony of the film is that facebook is a community that makes millions of friends through the internet and yet it was created by bitterness,greed, betrayal, and loss of friendship. Mark Zuckerberg is a brilliant computer programer and he knows it. This movie portrays him to be a “bad person” , however his actions don't quite make that true. Throughout the film many events happen that make him seem the bad guy however if he didn’t act the way he did, Facebook probably wouldn’t be a million dollar industry. “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” This statement couldn’t be anymore true and that is exactly what Zuckerberg did in order to become “The accidental billionaire”. He trashed his ex-girlfriend on the internet for dumping him and out of anger the rest of Harvard women: Hot or Not?, Lied to the Winklevoss twins about helping them with their Harvard Connection idea, and after draining his best friend Eduardo’s money decided he wanted to side with his new advisor Sean and cut him out of the company. To Mark it was all worth it to make Facebook a hit, he did it, he became very successful therefore he got exactly what he wanted. Does that make him a bad person in reality? Is it really worth it to lose friendship and loyalty for success and fame?
Personal identity is what makes a person who they are, the innermost thoughts and feelings and what moves them to be a certain way. To many the most important thing in life is family and friends, to others is money and success. A lot of things can influence people’s view on the most important things but other people aren’t what
The Social Network, a film raved about as “the Facebook movie” but it really isn’t all about Facebook, it talks about it and its the story behind it but it goes deeper than that. It speaks to the viewers about personal identity. Throughout the movie greed, friendship, betrayal, and envy are portrayed very accurately.
The irony of the film is that facebook is a community that makes millions of friends through the internet and yet it was created by bitterness,greed, betrayal, and loss of friendship. Mark Zuckerberg is a brilliant computer programer and he knows it. This movie portrays him to be a “bad person” , however his actions don't quite make that true. Throughout the film many events happen that make him seem the bad guy however if he didn’t act the way he did, Facebook probably wouldn’t be a million dollar industry. “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” This statement couldn’t be anymore true and that is exactly what Zuckerberg did in order to become “The accidental billionaire”. He trashed his ex-girlfriend on the internet for dumping him and out of anger the rest of Harvard women: Hot or Not?, Lied to the Winklevoss twins about helping them with their Harvard Connection idea, and after draining his best friend Eduardo’s money decided he wanted to side with his new advisor Sean and cut him out of the company. To Mark it was all worth it to make Facebook a hit, he did it, he became very successful therefore he got exactly what he wanted. Does that make him a bad person in reality? Is it really worth it to lose friendship and loyalty for success and fame?
Personal identity is what makes a person who they are, the innermost thoughts and feelings and what moves them to be a certain way. To many the most important thing in life is family and friends, to others is money and success. A lot of things can influence people’s view on the most important things but other people aren’t what