The Accidental Billionaires By Ben Mezrich

The Social Network, which was release in late 2010, follows the story of the socially inept Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, as he creates the most popular social media website of our time: Facebook. Using the deposition hearings of two law suits Zuckerberg found himself in during the mid-aughts, the movie paints him as a smug genius whose low social status compelled him to make a website that would finally make him socially accepted and more importantly, cool. While director, David Fincher; writer, Aaron Sorkin; as well an incredible performance of a talented cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Mara Rooney, deliver a believable (regardless of accuracy) and captivating story about the founder of Facebook, it’s the scene where Mark purposefully ignores a question from the opposing counsel during his deposition hearing that the audience fully understands the arrogance that Zuckerberg possesses.

The movie “Social Network” is about the ideas and the development behind the creation of the very popular social networking site “Facebook”. Mark Zuckerberg is the main character in the movie and also the actual creator of Facebook.

Social Media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider become available to U.S. universities. In 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S. was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 24-year-old Harvard student, created Facebook, an online social networking service. This service was originally a way for students to interact. Today it is the world’s largest social networking service and allows over a billion users to connect though posting photos, sharing links, and comments which all appear on a “News

Words in the English language can have numerous definitions and connotations; the term rich is no different than the rest. The first definition most people think of when they hear the word "rich" is having loads of money, which is exactly what Pete has in “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff. This definition of rich and the title of the story lead many readers to assume that Pete is rich and his brother Donald is poor, but this is not necessarily the case. A person can also be rich because they supply a large amount of something that is needed, such as love or forgiveness. After further analysis and a different view of the definition of “rich,” it is discovered that Donald is in fact, the rich brother, not the monetarily rich Pete.

Unlike in Macbeth, the tragic hero does not end up dying, and so still has time to fix his mistakes, but the feeling of pity is still evoked. As The Social Network comes to an end, Mark Zuckerberg can be seen sending a friend request to Erica Albright and constantly refreshing the page with a look of utmost desperation etched into his face. It is the first time that Mark truly realizes how self-involved he has been and that he has lost more than just a couple of lawsuits -- he lost the one true friend he ever had. The audience pities Mark, for all he wanted was to be recognized and make a name for himself, but now that he has everything he wanted, he is left all alone and

The film takes place at Harvard where Mark goes to college, he is seen as a nerdy kid with not many friends. The opening scene plays a major role in the creation of his website. The breakup with his girlfriend leads to his creation of a website called facemash where people compare girls’ pictures. Eventually after getting more ideas from friends, like changing the name from TheFacebook to Facebook, and using parts of other students’ ideas, he slowly grew Facebook into what it is today. What began in his dorm room as a bunch of blogging and programming became global social network and one of the greatest modern innovations of communication.

Plaintiffs Cameron Winklevoss,Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra (the Winklevosses) claimed that defendant Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them. The Winklevosses sued Facebook and Zuckerberg in Massachusetts and Facebook countersued them and their competing social network site, ConnectU, in California. The Winklevosses appealed in district court.

“The movie’s final image—Zuckerberg “friending” the woman who dumped him and endlessly refreshing the page to see if she accepts—is presented as pathetic irony. But you could also read it as a sign of hope. In the Facebook world, which is now ours, a new communication infrastructure exists, with no avenues definitively closed.” (Edelstein) The real Zuckerberg had a vision that Facebook would help create communities in an ever-insular world. And now we have seen the evolution. The world is changing so fast that we all get confused and disoriented without knowing what to do next. We like the Facebook: fast, simple, up-to-date...While the

The Wolf of Wallstreet and The Social Network are both bibliographies. We follow Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wallstreet who possesses a significantly charming and social personality from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker to his fall involving crime and corruption. Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network is on the other hand what some would call nerdy with his outstanding programming skills. His story is about how he created Facebook to become a worldwide sensation.

Josh Swensen is a genius. Since at age two, he started doing algebraic equations with refrigerator magnets just like Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerburg. Josh has a lot in common with Mark since they both created a website which got millions of viewers and became an internet sensation. The most intriguing part of this book is that, Josh is a bored seventeen-year-old boy who just happens to create a website where he posts all of his sermons about our celebrity-obsessed culture and anti- consumerism. In the beginning

The film is able through the use of rhetorical techniques to show how the aspirations of the characters were all in the acquisition of wealth and pursuit of fame for themselves. The film can show how the greed of the characters brings out the daunting financial problems. Various characters are portrayed such as that of Eduardo Saverin, which is played Andrew Garfield and the Winklevoss Twins which was played by Armie Hammer and Josh Pence. Eduardo is seen to be ambitious and quite professional with a more classic look and a business background with way more vast experience than Mark. He is said to have made $300,000 by betting oil futures and goes on to inject the founding capital for Facebook from his pocket. He is portrayed to have a great sense of focus and importance thus getting things done to set up Facebook. Eduardo becomes Facebook’s first CEO where we see that he is intent not only on how Facebook will be more interesting to a large genre of people but also plans to immense profits from it. He goes out of his way to set up meetings with advertisers in New York. He already has the vision and forecasting but Mark is not yet at

The opening scenes of the film introduce Mark Zuckerberg, the most enigmatic character in the film who comes to symbolise the disconnection that society has come to associate with generation Y. The film opens with Mark Zuckerberg and girlfriend, Erica Albright, sitting in a bar. Quick, intense conversation introduce the

Mark Zuckerberg et. al. (No. 07-1796, U.S. First Circuit) , it is indicated that Zuckerberg had to quickly arrange the financing to launch his site prior to the harvardconnection.com site where he was paid to work which has created a conflict of interest. Facebook was seeking early financing option at the cost of the company ownership, although Facebook did not follow the legal advice or proper contractual agreement with the financers in the early stage of the startup which eventually made the company to pay a hefty price in terms of settlements and the ownership. Similar to many other startups Facebook and its early investors were lacking proper legal terms and conditions and ownership agreement during the establishment of the limited liability company which was necessary to establish the contractual agreement such as the percentage of the ownership for the partners, percentage of ownership subjected to vested interest based on the participation in the business, rights and responsibilities, ownership provision in case of early exit or death of any of the partners and the percentage of ownership in lieu of the financing option and payback agreement. Aside from that seeking legal advice in terms business laws, patents and copyrights to protect the intellectual property should have done to mitigate the risks of legal issues that it had faced in later

Facebook, a social networking website, has changed the way people communicate with each other. A social networking website is an online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. Facebook has even changed our most personal and private conversations and how they are conducted around the world. Since the internet’s birth in 1983, this trend of online communication has been growing. Created in 2004, now registered with more than one billion participants, Facebook’s user numbers surpass even the top four social networking websites combined. According to Wikipedia statistics, Instagram has 300 million registered users, LinkedIn has 200 million users, Classmates.com has 50 million users, and Flickr has 32 million registered users. To be further convinced of the claim that Facebook indeed changes the way we communicate, you would only need to create your own Facebook account and start participating in their social networking experience. Technology and internet usage is fused into every aspect of our society including the style of communication. The launch of Facebook in 2006 also enabled other devices such as touch phones, interactive tablets, and even advanced cars with their own networking capabilities starting in 2007. Facebook is a multibillion-dollar company and is highly recognized for connecting more people than other networks. Facebook’s long-term success can be attributed to providing entertainment, world news, and

“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 .