Textual Analysis: Accidental Billionaire

In nearly every corner of the world, someone cannot walk down the street without seeing someone texting, talking or using the internet. Recent advances in our ability to communicate and process information in digital form— a series of developments sometimes described as an "IT revolution"— are reshaping the economies and societies of many countries around the world (“TECHNOLOGY AND GLOBALIZATION,” 2016). One of the main changers has been Facebook itself. Facebook is possibly one of the most well-known public corporation in our world today. With over 901 million users worldwide and with over 488 million users who access Facebook through the mobile app. It is an essential need for a lot of individuals out there. Launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskotvitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin at Harvard University, Facebook is now estimated to be worth $200 billion dollars. Facebook has changed the world in positively in so many ways and keeps us all connected to family/friends from anywhere around the world. Facebook and technology are co-related. Essentially, technology was the component that brought Facebook in this world.

“Like, every single shirt and fleece that I had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own.” “Someone might build something because they like building things,” Zuckerberg explains. Normally, Mark should be the person who cares about the movie most and might be pissed off because the movie portrayed him in an unflattering light. But it seems that he respects the ideas and decisions of the filmmakers, more or less, in terms of artistic creation. It was because he wanted to see how filmmakers would interpret his unimaginable story. This kind of art stresses the maze beyond art and the real world, which can only be seen through by smart people who also show respect to the artwork.

In the film The Social Network, directed by David Fincher, the character Mark Zuckerberg is depicted as an arrogant, egocentric person who will lie and harm the people around him to get to where he wants. Zuckerberg’s ex-girlfriend Erica Albright brakes up with him and as a result of his emotions of that night, he creates a website that becomes very popular within hours of being up, and ultimately crashes the schools connection. The name Zuckerberg then becomes very popular, and the Winklevoss twins reach out to him for help to build a new innovating social networking website. This is the beginning of a giant chain reaction that each decision leads to another bigger conflict.

In today’s world where technology is at its peak. However, there was a time when things were getting evolved and websites were created to connect people with each other, and make them socialize. Facebook created with intend of connecting to people which it became successful, but not successful. Libby Copeland’s essay addresses some key factors on how Facebook makes us sad, according to the research and some expert testimony.

The story of Facebook begins on the campus of Harvard University. Whether the inspiration for the site originated with Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra or the founder and current CEO Mark Zuckerberg is debatable. For the sake of thoroughness, the story will begin with the Winklevoss. In 2003 the Winklevoss twins were seniors at Harvard University both majoring in economics, together with fellow Harvard senior Divya Narendra they were searching for a web designer to help them create a site to be titled HarvardConnections.com, according to the three they had come up with this idea in their junior year at Harvard. The plan for HarvardConnections.com was that it would be a networking site for Harvard students and alumni, users would be able to create profiles, add friends, and send messages to one another (Zuckerberg often referred to it as a dating site).  Initially the Winklevoss twins and Narendra dictated the coding of their website to Sanjay G. Mavinkurve but once he graduated and went on to work at Google they began to pay Victor Y. Gao to code for them. Soon however, Gao also left the project but recommended that the three should contact Mark Zuckerberg to replace him. Mark Zuckerberg originally from Dobbs Ferry, New York was a sophomore student at Harvard at the time. Mark Zuckerberg, incidentally, was already a bit famous among students at Harvard during the time because of his creation of Facemash. The website Facemash was a site that allowed

On February 4th, 2004, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) launched Facebook. Facebook is a social media website that connects people from all around the world. Facebook initially limited the website 's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old is allowed to become a registered user of the website.

Facebook which was found by Mark Zuckerberg in Cambridge, Maine in 2004, its mission is “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them”.

Mark Zuckerberg has been under a microscope since he created Facebook in 2004, and for good reasons. His story is a fascinating one. He was accepted to one of the most prestigious universities in the world (Harvard) to drop out and create the most successful social media websites the world has seen. Naturally, this would gather a lot of attention. Zuckerberg has taken massive amounts of scrutiny from other executives in the tech world. “Mark Zuckerberg is like every other CEO in his twenties. He 's hanging on for dear life as his company shoots off into the stratosphere.” was said by Paul Saffo a

It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected” (Prospero, Mark Zukerberg’s IPO Letter, 2012). Basically, his goal was just like any of the others he had when he was younger and that is to help people. Whether it be making it easier to communicate in an office, creating video games, or helping students find courses. Zuckerberg likes helping people, the original purpose of Facebook was to help people communicate, socialize, and meet new people. Personally, I don’t only have people I know on Facebook because nobody else needs to know about my life. However, it gives people the option to get to learn about somebody/something from Japan, Austrailia, or practically anywhere. The stated the Facebook has five core values which are: focusing on the impact, moving fast, being bold, being open, and building social value. They want people to be able to be themselves, whether it be needing some help about something in life, showing their interests (photography), or maybe posting pictures of food. What makes them successful is that they are worried about the people and how they feel about their company. As the article has stated, “Facebook was not originally founded to be a company. We’ve always cared primarily about our social mission, the services we’re building and the people who use them. This is a different approach for a public company to take” (Prospero, 2012). Their primary focus is

The book does lack in detail the accounts of lawsuits against Facebook. One of the biggest one being a lawsuit filed against Zuckerberg in which three Harvard students say Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook. Interesting enough all the people interviewed for the book Eduardo Saverin who also filed a lawsuit was not interviewed.

He was dazed and confused, but now he is high-spirited and vigorous. Mark Zuckerberg, the 28-year-old CEO of the Facebook, proved a variety of possibilities in the Internet era by his own way. How did he do this? What made Zuckerberg so successful? First, he was full of confidence. In Chung (2012)’s article, Mark tried to explain his landlord Judy Fusco that what the Facebook is. “He said they were going to build a network that would change the world.” At that time, Judy was impressed by Mark’s confidence. Second, Mark was creative. Nathaniel Popper (2011) once interviewed Mark’s father about Mark’s anecdotes. “He was bored with his schoolwork,” the elder Zuckerberg said. And he let young Mark create a primitive instant messaging system to enable people in the dental office to communicate through computer. Young Mark finished it successfully. This may have laid the ground for Mark to throw himself into the IT area. There is an old saying “One’s character at three years old seals his fate.” People could find some clues that Mark Zuckerberg would become an extraordinary leader from above events. In addition, after his success of the Facebook, how did he approach his role as such a huge company’s leader? After the success of the Facebook, people began to have interest in him. For a while, Mark was regarded as the next Steve Jobs because they had similar life experience and characters. For example, they both started their own business at twenty years old. Steve Jobs started

Named the 2010 person of the year by Time magazine, Mark Zuckerberg’s revolutionary idea allowed him to become an iconic business figure and multi-billionaire by his mid-20s. Mark Zuckerberg was born into a well-educated family in White Plains, New York, alongside his three sisters. According to his father he was “strong-willed and relentless” and needed arguments to be backed up by facts and logic. His interest in technology developed at an early age, and while he was in high school at Philips Exeter Academy he and his classmate co-wrote a music recommendation program called Synapse. This program was sought by both Microsoft and AOL, but if he accepted their offers, it would have interfered with his schooling. Instead he enrolled at Harvard

The Social Network is about the Harvard student, Mark Zuckerburg, who creates the multi-million-dollar company and social media site, Facebook. In that process, he robs his best friend, Eduardo, of shares in the company that helped found. He ends up being sued by Eduardo, and the Winklevoss brothers due to his selfish nature. His obsessions include popularity (this is his motivation

“The biggest risk you can take, is to take no risk” is a wise quote from Mark Zuckerberg, a man who is definitely is a strong abider of his very words. But what makes this man such a risk taker? This man, Mark Zuckerberg, created Synapse, is the founder of the Facebook era, and is the world’s youngest billionare.He is a high school programing prodigy and a software developing genius. Mark’s most famous accomplishment, Facebook, is the world’s largest social networking site. Heard of it? Good or Bad? Member or not? You have most likely encountered talk of this phenomenon. Is it a phase or an addiction? A help or a hindrance? Whatever it is, Mark’s accomplishments updated his and our statuses permanently .

INTRODUCTION: Facebook is the most popular social networking site over the world with more than eight hundred million users. It has become so much part of people’s life that anyone can get access to their personal information. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg with the concept of allowing people to share their common interest, but with time it has lost its real essence. As a matter of fact, it is a very useful medium of communication to stay connected with friends and family, but it has some positive as well as negative effects on the society. It is a social network which was created as a social media platform to connect people and in many ways it seems that it has achieved its purpose. However, facebook’s popularity and massive use masks its psychological damages which are: addiction, depression and isolation.