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Facebook
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Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. [1] As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users.[5][6] Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Facebook users must register before using the site. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the website. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[7] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over, but based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms.[8] A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[9] Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "bestof" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[10] Quantcast estimates Facebook has 138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in May 2011. [11] According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook
Facebook,Inc.
Type Founded
Private Cambridge, Massachusetts [1] (2004) Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes
Founder
Headquarters Palo Alto, California, U.S., will be moved to Menlo Park, California, U.S. in June 2011 Areaserved Keypeople Worldwide Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) Chris Cox (VP of Product) Sheryl Sandberg (COO) Donald E. Graham (Chairman) Revenue Netincome Employees Website US$2 billion (2010 est.) [2] N/A 2000+ (2010)[3] facebook.com (https://www.facebook.com)
IPv6support www.v6.facebook.com (http://www.v6.facebook.com/) Alexarank Typeofsite Advertising 2 (May 2011)[4] Social networking service Banner ads, referral marketing, casual games Required 600 million[5][6] (active in January 2011) Multilingual February 4, 2004
Registration Users
Availablein Launched
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Facebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia account.[12] Nevertheless, facebook's market growth started to stall in some regions, with the site losing 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011 [13].
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Current status
Active
Screenshot
Contents
1 History 2 Company 2.1 Ownership 2.2 Management 2.3 Revenue 2.4 Mergers and acquisitions 2.5 Operations 3 Website 4 Reception 5 Privacy 6 Criticism 7 Media impact 8 Social impact 9 Political impact 10 Media 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External links
Screenshot of Facebook's homepage
History
Main articles: History of Facebook and Timeline of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person". [14][15] To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student "facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information). Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online. [14][16]
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The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, however, the charges were dropped. [17] Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a website, with one image per page along with a comment section.[16] He opened the site up to his classmates, and people started sharing their notes. The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident.[18] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.[19] Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. [20] The three complained to the Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling.[21] Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.[22] Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[23] It soon opened to the other Ivy League schools, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[24][25]
Mark Zuckerberg co-created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room.
Chris Hughes Dustin Moskovitz
Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.[26] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[23] It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[27] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000. [28] Facebook launched a high-school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step.[35] At that time, Totalactiveusers[N 1] high-school networks required an invitation to join. [36] Facebook later expanded
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Users (inmillions)
Date
Dayslater
Monthlygrowth[N 2]
August 26, 2008 April 8, 2009
100[29] 200[30] 400[32]
1,665 225 150 143
178.38% 13.33% 10% 6.99%
September 15, 2009 300[31] February 5, 2010
July 21, 2010 166 4.52% 500[33] On October 24, 2007, January 5, 2011 3.57% Microsoft announced that it 600[34][N 3] 168 had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[40] Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook. [41] In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.[42] In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time. [43] In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, Facebook's value was $41 billion (slightly surpassing eBay's) and it became the third largest US web company after Google and Amazon.[44] Facebook has been identified as a possible candidate for an IPO by 2013.[45] Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More people visited Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, 2010. [46] In March 2011 it was reported that Facebook removes approximately 20,000 profiles from the site every day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost cyber security. [47] In early 2011, Facebook announced plans to move to its new headquarters, the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California.[48][49]
Company
Ownership
Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of the company, Accel Partners owns 10%, Digital Sky Technologies owns 10%,[50] Dustin Moskovitz owns 6%, Eduardo Saverin owns 5%, Sean Parker owns 4%, Peter Thiel owns 3%, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners own between 1 to 2% each, Microsoft owns 1.3%, Li Ka-shing owns 0.75%, the Interpublic Group owns less than 0.5%, a small group of current and former employees and celebrities own less than 1% each, including Matt Cohler, Jeff Rothschild, Adam D'Angelo, Chris Hughes, and Owen Van Natta, while Reid Entrance to Facebook's current Hoffman and Mark Pincus have sizable holdings of the headquarters in the Stanford Research company, and the remaining 30% or so are owned by Park, Palo Alto, California. employees, an undisclosed number of celebrities, and outside investors.[51] Adam D'Angelo, chief technology officer and friend of Zuckerberg, resigned in May 2008. Reports claimed that he and Zuckerberg began quarreling, and that he was no longer interested in partial ownership of the company. [52]
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Management
Key management personnel comprise Chris Cox (VP of Product), Sheryl Sandberg (COO), and Donald E. Graham (Chairman). As of April 2011, Facebook has over 2,000 employees, and offices in 15 countries.[53]
Revenue
Most of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising. Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner for serving banner advertising,[54] and therefore Facebook serves only advertisements that exist in Microsoft's advertisement inventory. Facebook generally has a lower clickthrough rate (CTR) for advertisements than most major websites. Banner advertisements on Facebook have generally received onefifth the number of clicks compared to those on the Web as a whole.[59] This means that a smaller percentage of Facebook's users click on advertisements than many other large websites. For example, while Google users click on the first advertisement for search results an average of 8% of the time (80,000 clicks for every one million searches),[60] Facebook's users click on advertisements an average of 0.04% of the time (400 clicks for every one million pages).
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Revenues
(estimated,inmillionsUS$)
Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Revenue $52[55] $150[56] $280[57] $775[58] $2,000[2]
Growth 188% 87% 177% 158%
Sarah Smith, who was Facebook's Online Sales Operations Manager, confirmed that successful advertising campaigns can have clickthrough rates as low as 0.05% to 0.04%, and that CTR for ads tend to fall within two weeks. [62] Competing social network MySpace's CTR, in comparison, is about 0.1%, 2.5 times better than Facebook's but still low compared to many other websites. Explanations for Facebook's low CTR include the fact that Facebook's users are more technologically savvy and therefore use ad blocking software to hide advertisements, that users are younger and therefore better at ignoring advertising messages, and that MySpace users spend more time browsing through content, while Facebook users spend their time communicating with friends and therefore have their attention diverted away from advertisements.[63] On pages for brands and products, however, some companies have reported CTR as high as 6.49% for Wall posts.[64] Involver, a social marketing platform, announced in July 2008 that it managed to attain a CTR of 0.7% on Facebook (over 10 times the typical CTR for Facebook ad campaigns) for its first client, Serena Software, managing to convert 1.1 million views into 8,000 visitors to their website.[65] A study found that, for video advertisements on Facebook, over 40% of users who viewed the videos viewed the entire video, while the industry average was 25% for in -banner video ads.[66]
Mergersandacquisitions
Main article: List of acquisitions by Facebook On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquired FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation for an undisclosed amount. On January 11, 2011, the Farm Bureau disclosed $8.5 million in "domain sales income", making the acquisition of FB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history.[67]
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Operations
A custom-built data center with substantially reduced ("38% less") power consumption compared to existing Facebook data centers opened in April 2011 in Prineville, Oregon.[68]
Website
Main articles: Facebook features and Facebook Platform Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest groups and "like pages" (called "fan pages" until April 19, 2010), some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.[69] To allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see specific parts of their profile. [70] The website is free to users, and generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads.[71] Facebook requires a user's name and profile picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users can control who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in searches, through their privacy settings. [72]
Facebook's homepage features a login form on the top right for existing users, and a registration form directly underneath for new visitors.
The media often compare Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization. [73] Another difference is Facebook's requirement that users give Profile shown on Facebook in 2011 their true identity, a demand that MySpace does not [74] make. MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook allows only plain text.[75] Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see;[76] Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification then tells a user that they have been poked);[77] Photos, where users can upload albums and photos;[78] and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.[79] Depending on privacy settings, anyone Profile shown on Thefacebook in 2005 who can see a user's profile can also view that user's Wall. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content only.[76]
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Facebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On September 6, 2006, a News Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends.[80] This enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause.[81] Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, others were concerned that it made it too easy for others to track individual activities (such as relationship status changes, events, and conversations with other users).[82] In response, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent user-set categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.[83] On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent[84] on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the same activity of another user. [85] The patent may encourage Facebook to pursue action against websites that violate its patent, which may potentially include websites such as Twitter.[86] One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums and photos.[87] Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, compared with other image hosting services such as Photobucket and Flickr, which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. During the first years, Facebook users were limited to 60 photos per album. As of May 2009, this limit has been increased to 200 photos per album.
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Facebook profile shown in 2007
Facebook mobile graphical user interface
Privacy settings can be set for individual albums, limiting the groups of users that can see an album. For example, the privacy of an album can be set so that only the user's friends can see the album, while the privacy of another album can be set so that all Facebook users can see it. Another feature of the Photos application is the ability to "tag", or label, users in a photo. For instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have been tagged, and provides them a link to see the photo. [92]
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Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tags and embeddable images. Users were later able to import blogs from Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, and other blogging services. [38] During the week of April 7, 2008, Facebook released a Comet-based[93] instant messaging application called "Chat" to several networks, [94] which allows users to communicate with friends and is similar in functionality to desktop-based instant messengers. Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts to their friends that appear on the recipient's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and a personalized message can be attached to each gift. [95][96] On May 14, 2007, Facebook launched Marketplace, which lets users post free classified ads. [97] Marketplace has been compared to Craigslist by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the two is that listings posted by a user on Marketplace are seen only by users in the same network as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone. [98] On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of its user interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profiles were separated into tabbed sections, and an effort was made to create a "cleaner" look.[99] After initially giving users a choice to switch, Facebook began migrating all users to the new version beginning in September 2008.[100] On December 11, 2008, it was announced that Facebook was testing a simpler signup process.[101] On June 13, 2009, Facebook introduced a "Usernames" feature, whereby pages can be linked with simpler URLs such as http://www.facebook.com/facebook as opposed to [102] http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20531316728. Many new smartphones offer access to Facebook services through either their web-browsers or applications. An official Facebook application is available for the iPhone OS, the Android OS, and the WebOS. Nokia and Research In Motion both provide Facebook applications for their own mobile devices. More than 150 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile operators in 60 countries. On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced a new "Facebook Messages" service. In a media event that day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "It's true that people will be able to have an @facebook.com email addresses, but it's not email". The launch of such a feature had been anticipated for some time before the announcement, with some calling it a "Gmail killer". The system, to be available to all of the website's users, combines text messaging, instant messaging, emails, and regular messages, and will include privacy settings similar to those of other Facebook services. Codenamed "Project Titan", Facebook Messages took 15 months to develop. [103][104] In February 2011, Facebook began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard microformat for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications.[105] Since April 2011 Facebook users have had the ability to make live voice calls via Facebook Chat, allowing users to chat with others from all over the world. This feature, which is provided free through T-Mobile's new Bobsled service, lets the user add voice to the current Facebook Chat as well as leave voice messages on Facebook.[106]
Reception
According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpace in April 2008.[107] ComScore reports that Facebook attracted 130 million unique visitors in May 2010, an increase of 8.6 million people. [108] According to Alexa, the website's ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in
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worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently 2nd. [109] Quantcast ranks the website 2nd in the U.S. in traffic, [110] and Compete.com ranks it 2nd in the U.S.[111] The website is the most popular for uploading photos, with 50 billion uploaded cumulatively.[112] In 2010, Sophos's "Security Threat Report 2010" polled over 500 firms, 60% of which responded that they believed that Facebook was the social network that posed the biggest threat to security, well ahead of MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.[113] Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries, including Canada,[114] the United Kingdom,[115] and the United States.[116][117][118][119] In regional Internet markets, Facebook penetration is highest in North America (69 percent), followed by Middle EastAfrica (67 percent), Latin America (58 percent), Europe (57 percent), and Asia-Pacific (17 percent).
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The website has won awards such as placement into the "Top 100 Classic Websites" by PC Magazine in 2007,[121] and winning the "People's Voice Award" from the Webby Awards in 2008. [122] In a 2006 study conducted by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based company specializing in research concerning the college student market, Facebook was named the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied with beer and only ranked lower than the iPod.[123] On March 2010, Judge Richard Seeborg issued an order approving the class settlement in Lane v. Facebook, Inc., the class action lawsuit arising out of Facebook's Beacon program. In 2010, Facebook won the Crunchie "Best Overall Startup Or Product" for the third year in a row [124] and was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" by Lead411.[125] However, in a July 2010 survey performed by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook received a score of 64 out of 100, placing it in the bottom 5% of all private-sector companies in terms of customer satisfaction, alongside industries such as the IRS e-file system, airlines, and cable companies. The reasons why Facebook scored so poorly include privacy problems, frequent changes to the website's interface, the results returned by the News Feed, and spam. [126] In December 2008, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory ruled that Facebook is a valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants. It is believed to be the world's first legal judgement that defines a summons posted on Facebook as legally binding. [127] In March 2009, the New Zealand High Court associate justice David Gendall allowed for the serving of legal papers on Craig Axe by the company Axe Market Garden via Facebook.[128][129] Employers (such as Virgin Atlantic Airways) have also used Facebook as a means to keep tabs on their employees and have even been known to fire them over posts they have made. [130] By 2005, the use of Facebook had already become so ubiquitous that the generic verb "facebooking" had come into use to describe the process of browsing others' profiles or updating one's own. [131] In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared "Facebook" as its new Word of the Year. [132] In December 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary declared its word of the year to be the verb " unfriend", defined as "To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, 'I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.'" [133] In April 2010, according to The New York Times, countries with the most Facebook users were the United States, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia.[134] Indonesia has become the country with the second largest number of Facebook users, after the United States, with 24 million users, or 10% of Indonesia's population.[135] Also in early 2010, Openbook was established, an avowed parody (and privacy advocacy) website [136] that enables text-based searches of those Wall posts that are available to "Everyone", i.e. to everyone on the Internet.
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Writers for The Wall Street Journal found in 2010 that Facebook apps were transmitting identifying information to "dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies". The apps used an HTTP referrer which exposed the user's identity and sometimes their friends'. Facebook said, "We have taken immediate action to disable all applications that violate our terms". [137]
Privacy
According to comScore, an internet marketing research company, Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft, but considerably less than Yahoo!.[138] In 2010, the security team began expanding its efforts to reduce the risks to users' privacy.[113] On November 6, 2007, Facebook launched Facebook Beacon, which was an ultimately failed attempt to advertise to friends of users using the knowledge of what purchases friends made.
Criticism
Main article: Criticism of Facebook Facebook has met with controversies. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including the People's Republic of China,[139] Vietnam,[140] Iran,[141] Uzbekistan,[142] Pakistan,[143] Syria,[144] and Bangladesh on different bases. For example, it was banned in many countries of the world on the basis of allowed content judged as anti-Islamic and containing religious discrimination. It has also been banned at many workplaces to prevent employees wasting their time on the site.[145] The privacy of Facebook users has also been an issue, and the safety of user accounts has been compromised several times. Facebook has settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.[146] In May 2011 emails were sent to journalists and bloggers making critical allegations about Google's privacy policies; however it was later discovered that the anti-Google campaign, conducted by PR giant Burson-Marsteller, was paid for by Facebook in what CNN referred to as "a new level skullduggery" and which Daily Beast called a "clumsy smear".[147]
Mediaimpact
In April 2011, Facebook launched a new portal for marketers and creative agencies to help them develop brand promotions on Facebook. [148] The company began its push by inviting a select group of British advertising leaders to meet Facebook's top executives at an "influencers' summit" in February 2010. Facebook has now been involved in campaigns for True Blood, American Idol, and Top Gear.[149]
Socialimpact
Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. It can reunite lost family members and friends. One such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been searching for 20 years. They met after Watson found her facebook profile.[150] Another fatherdaughter reunion was between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years. [151] Some studies have named Facebook as a source of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested that using Facebook causes divorce and infidelity, but the claims have been questioned and refuted by other commentators. [152][153]
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Politicalimpact
Facebook's role in the American political process was demonstrated in January 2008, shortly before the New Hampshire primary, when Facebook teamed up with ABC and Saint Anselm College to allow users to give live feedback about the "back to back" January 5 Republican and Democratic debates.[154][155][156] Charles Gibson moderated both debates, held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College. Facebook users took part in debate groups organized around specific topics, register to vote, and message questions.[157] Over 1,000,000 people installed the Facebook application 'US politics' in order to take part, and the application measured users' responses to specific comments made by the [158] debating candidates. This debate showed the broader community what many young students had already experienced: Facebook was an extremely popular and powerful new way to interact and voice opinions. An article by Michelle Sullivan of Uwire.com illustrates how the "facebook effect" has affected youth voting rates, support by youth of political candidates, and general involvement by the youth population in the 2008 election.[159] In February 2008, a Facebook group called "One Million Voices Against FARC" organized an event in which hundreds of thousands of Colombians marched in protest against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC (from the group's Spanish name). [160] In August 2010, one of North Korea's official government websites and the official news agency of the country, Uriminzokkiri, joined Facebook.[161] In 2010 an English director of public health, whose staff was researching Syphilis, linked and attributed a rise in Syphilis cases in areas of Britain to Facebook. The reports of this research were rebuked by Facebook as "ignoring the difference between correlation and causation".[162]
The stage at the Facebook Saint Anselm College debates in 2008.
Media
At age 102, Ivy Bean of Bradford, England joined Facebook in 2008, making her one of the oldest people ever on Facebook. An inspiration to other residents of the care home in which she lived,[163] she quickly became more widely known and several fan pages were made in her honor. She visited Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, in Downing Street early in 2010.[164] Some time after creating her Facebook page, Bean also joined Twitter, when she passed the maximum number of friends allowed by Facebook. She became the oldest person to ever use the Twitter website. At the time of her death in July 2010, she had 4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers on Twitter. Her death was widely reported in the media and she received tributes from several notable media personalities.[165] "FriendFace", a December 2008 episode of the British sitcom, The IT Crowd, parodied Facebook and social networking sites in general.[166] American author Ben Mezrich published a book in July 2009 about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, titled The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.[167] In response to the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy and the ban of the website in Pakistan, an Islamic version of the website was created, called MillatFacebook.[168]
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"You Have 0 Friends", an April 2010 episode of the American animated comedy series, South Park, parodied Facebook.[169] The Social Network, a drama film directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook, was released October 1, 2010. [170] The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The film was written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures. No staff members of Facebook, including Zuckerberg, were involved with the project. However, one of Facebook's co-founders, Eduardo Saverin, was a consultant for Mezrich's book. Mark Zuckerberg has said that The Social Network is inaccurate.[171] On February 22, 2011, an Egyptian baby was named "Facebook" to commemorate the vital role Facebook and other social media played in Egypt's revolution.[172] On May 16, 2011, an Israeli couple named their daughter after the Facebook "like" feature. They explained that it wasn't to advertise for Facebook, but because they fancied the meaning behind the word.[173][174]
Seealso
Ambient awareness Facebook stalking List of social networking websites List of virtual communities with more than 100 million users Social media Facebook users
Notes
1. ^ An "active user" is defined by Facebook as a user who has visited the website in the last 30 days. 2. ^ "Monthly growth" is the average percentage growth rate at which the total number of active users grows each month over the specified period. 3. ^ This value is from an investment document. The date is from when the document was revealed to the public, not the actual date that the website reached this many users.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iOAHXhFHXrWMDdtAajYAxmypKT2w . Retrieved June 9, 2010. ^ "South Park parodies Facebook" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/apr/08/south -park-season-4episode-14-facebook) . Guardian media blog (London). April 8, 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/apr/08/south -park-season-4-episode-14facebook. Retrieved June 7, 2010. ^ "The Social Network (2010)" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/) . Internet Movie DataBase. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/ . Retrieved July 3, 2010. ^ Racheff, Jeffery (October 20, 2010). "Mark Zuckerberg Calls The Social Network Inaccurate" (http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/Mark-Zuckerberg-Calls-The-Social-NetworkInaccurate-VIDEO/77351.html) . Limelife. http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/Mark-Zuckerberg-CallsThe-Social-Network-Inaccurate-VIDEO/77351.html. ^ Trenholm, Rich (February 22, 2011). "Egyptian names baby 'Facebook'" (http://news.cnet.com/83011023_3-20034931-93.html) . CNET News. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20034931-93.html. ^ Ehrlich, Brenna (May 17, 2011). "Parents name child after Facebook 'Like' button" (http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/16/baby.like.name.mashable/index.html) . CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/16/baby.like.name.mashable/index.html . ^ Olivarez-Giles, Nathan (May 16, 2011). "Israeli newborn named 'Like' in tribute to Facebook" (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/israeli -couple-names-daughter-like-intribute-to-facebook.html) . Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/israeli -couple-names-daughter-like-in-tribute-tofacebook.html.
Furtherreading
Kirkpatrick, David, "Why Facebook matters: It's not just for arranging dates. And it's not just another social network. Facebook offers sophisticated tools for maintaining social relationships" (http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/06/magazines/fortune/fastforward_facebook.fortune/index.h Fortune magazine, October 6, 2006
Externallinks
The Wiktionary definition of Facebook Media related to Facebook at Wikimedia Commons Official website (https://www.facebook.com) Facebook (http://twitter.com/facebook) on Twitter Facebook (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/facebook) collected news and commentary at The Guardian Collected news and commentary (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html) at The New York Times Facebook news and reviews (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/) at The Daily Telegraph (London) Hits chart between Facebook and Google (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/67e89ae8-30f7-11dfb057-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1BfiyklYU) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" Categories: Facebook | Android software | BlackBerry software | Blog hosting services | Blog software | Companies based in Palo Alto, California | Global internet community | Internet properties established in 2004 | IOS software | Privately held companies of the United States | Social information processing | Social media | Social networking services | Student culture | Symbian software | Web 2.0 | 2004 establishments in the United States | Photo sharing | Online gaming services | Websites which mirror Wikipedia This page was last modified on 21 June 2011 at 14:36.
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The Social Network

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by David Fincher and features a cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Joseph Mazzello, and Rooney Mara. Aaron Sorkin's screenplay adapts Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires. Sorkin makes a cameo appearance as an unimpressed advertiser. Neither founder Mark Zuckerberg nor any other member of Facebook was involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich. [3] The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 2010. The film received widespread acclaim, with critics praising it for its editing, acting, score and screenplay. The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010; of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said "The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade." It received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), and Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), and won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. It also won the Best Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night.
The Social Network
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Directedby Producedby
David Fincher Scott Rudin Dana Brunetti Michael De Luca Cen Chaffin Kevin Spacey
Screenplayby Basedon
Aaron Sorkin The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich Jesse Eisenberg Andrew Garfield Justin Timberlake Brenda Song Armie Hammer Max Minghella Rashida Jones Rooney Mara Trent Reznor Atticus Ross
Starring
Contents
1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Casting 3.2 Filming 3.2.1 Rowing production
Musicby
Cinematography Jeff Cronenweth
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Editingby
Kirk Baxter Angus Wall Relativity Media Trigger Street Productions Columbia Pictures October 1, 2010 121 minutes[1] United States English $40 million [2] $224,583,810 [2]
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Plot
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In 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright (Rooney Mara). Upset, Mark returns to his dorm where he gets drunk and writes a scathing blog entry about her, which inspires him to create an on -campus website called Facemash that allows the users to rate the attractiveness of female students. However, Mark is caught and receives six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network. His prank also causes him to become vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, FaceMash's popularity and the fact that Mark created it in one night while drunk brings him to the attention of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their business partner Divya Narendra (Max Minghella). The Winklevoss twins invite Mark to their final club, the Porcellian Club, where Mark accepts a job as programmer for a proposed dating website they call Harvard Connection which will be exclusive to Harvard alums. Mark then approaches his friend Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls "Thefacebook", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains that this would mimic the popularity of FaceMash but since signing up would be consensual it would avoid the ethical problems of the earlier site. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing $1,000 to help start the site. They distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K final club, and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe Zuckerberg had stolen their idea while stalling on their website. Tyler and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft, but Cameron convinces them they can settle the matter as "gentlemen of Harvard" without going to court. During a visiting lecture by Bill Gates, fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee (Brenda Song) introduces herself and her friend Alice to Eduardo and Mark. She asks the boys to "Facebook me"; Christy's use of this phrase impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar, where she and Eduardo engage in oral sex in the bar's restroom. At the same bar, Mark later runs into Erica, who is not aware of Thefacebook because she is not a Harvard student. Mark decides to expand the site to Yale University, Columbia University and Stanford University (suggested by Eduardo) as Thefacebook grows in popularity, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" advance without them. Cameron refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is sarcastic and dismissive towards the Winklevoss twins and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself.
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Through Christy, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster cofounder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). When they meet Sean, Eduardo becomes skeptical noting Sean's problematic personal and professional history. Sean presents a vision for Facebook very similar to that of Mark, which earns Mark's instant admiration. In a parting comment, Sean suggests they drop the "The" from Thefacebook. At Sean's suggestion, Mark moves the company to Palo Alto, while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support. At a nightclub, Sean advises Mark to keep hold of his ownership of Facebook to ensure that Mark does not lose control of a potentially lucrative business venture, using Victoria's Secret founder Roy Raymond as an example. After Sean promises to expand Facebook to two other continents, Mark invites Sean to live at the house he is using as the company headquarters. Meanwhile in England, while competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover Facebook has expanded to a number of English universities and footage of their lost rowing match against the Hollandia Roeiclub is posted on it. Faced with this humiliation Cameron finally relents and they decide to sue. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find that Sean is living in their house and is making business decisions for Facebook. Eduardo pulls Mark aside and has an argument with him, with Mark making a demeaning remark regarding Eduardo's failed attempts at finding advertisers. Fed up with Mark's attitude toward him, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account, which is still in his name, and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy argues with Eduardo about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as "single". Christy does not believe Eduardo when he reluctantly explains that he doesn't know how to change his profile. She accuses him of cheating on her and sets fire to a scarf he has given to her. As a result of Christy's odd behavior, Eduardo ends his relationship with her. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire she caused, Mark reveals on the phone that although he was upset that Eduardo almost jeopardized Facebook by freezing the bank account, they have secured $500,000 from angel investor Peter Thiel. While visiting the new headquarters for a meeting, Eduardo soon discovers the deal he signed with Sean's investors has allowed them to dilute his share of the company from 34 percent to 0.03 percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. Devastated, he confronts Mark and announces his intention to sue him. Later that night, during a party celebrating Facebook's one millionth member, Sean and a number of underage Facebook interns are arrested for possession of cocaine. Sean calls Mark and tries deceiving him into believing that he had nothing to do with the incident and that Eduardo stashed the cocaine, but Mark does not believe him and tells him to "go home". Throughout the film, the story is intercut with scenes from depositions taken in lawsuits against Mark and Facebookone filed by the Winklevoss twins, the other by Eduardo. The Winklevoss twins claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social networking website, and Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were diluted when the company was incorporated. At the end, Marylin Delpy (Rashida Jones), a junior lawyer for the defense, informs Mark they will be settling with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding and Mark's callous attitude will make a jury highly unsympathetic. After everyone leaves, Mark sends a friend request to Erica Albright on Facebook, and refreshes the page every few seconds waiting for a response.
Cast
Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker Brenda Song as Christy Lee Armie Hammer as Cameron Winklevoss/Tyler Winklevoss
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Production
Casting
Casting began in early August 2009, and open auditions were held in various states. Jesse Eisenberg was first announced to be attached to the project in September 2009. [6] (Coincidentally, in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer, Zuckerberg revealed that Eisenberg's cousin, Eric Fisher, was a Facebook product designer.) Several days later, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield were confirmed to portray the roles of Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin, respectively. In October 2009, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer, Shelby Young, and Josh Pence were cast.[7] Max Minghella and Dakota Johnson were also confirmed to star in the film.[7] In a 2009 interview with The Baltimore Sun, Eisenberg said, "Even though I've gotten to be in some wonderful movies, this character seems so much more overtly insensitive in so many ways that seem more real to me in the best way. I don't often get cast as insensitive people, so it feels very comfortable: fresh and exciting, as if you never have to worry about the audience. Not that I worry about the audience anyway it should be just the furthest thing from your mind. The Social Network is the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie."[8]
Filming
Principal photography began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[9] Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy.[10] Additional scenes were filmed on the campus of Wheelock College, which was set up to be Harvard's campus.[11] (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused significant physical damage to the campus [12]). Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 24,[13] which also doubled for Harvard in the film. [14] The first scene in the film, where Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to finish. [3] The film was shot on the Red One digital cinema camera at 4K resolution. [15] The rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Inc. in Newton, MA [16] and Henley Royal Regatta.[17] Although a significant portion of the latter half of the film is set in Silicon Valley, the filmmakers opted to shoot those scenes in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Miniature faking process was used in a sequence showing a rowing event at the Henley Royal Regatta.
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Armie Hammer, who portrayed the Winklevoss twins, acted alongside body double Josh Pence while his scenes were filmed. His face was later digitally grafted onto Pence's face during post-production, while other scenes used split-screen photography. Pence himself appears in a cameo role. [18] Pence was concerned about having no face time during the role, but after consideration thought of the role as a "no-brainer".[19] Hammer states that director David Fincher "likes to push himself and likes to push technology" and is "one of the most technologically minded guys I've ever seen."[18] This included sending the actors to "twin boot camp" for 10 months to learn everything about the Winklevosses.[19]
Rowingproduction
Community Rowing Inc. held a casting call and a tryout for 20 rowing extras; some were graduates from Harvard, Northeastern University, Boston University, George Washington University, and Trinity College, as well as local club rowers from Union and Riverside.[20] None of the casted rowing extras for the Henley Royal Regatta racing scene appeared in the film; filming for the race was originally planned to take place in Los Angeles, CA, but Fincher made the call to film in England during production. [21] David Fincher hired Loyola Marymount coach Dawn Reagan to help train Josh Pence and Armie Hammer.[22] While Hammer was new to the sport, Pence rowed previously at Dartmouth College.[22] The extras in pairs for the Charles River scene were cast as follows: Tom Owston and Joe Carrol Henry Roosevelt and Teddy Schreck Tyler Williamson and Matt Webb Perrin Hamilton and Steve Barchick Lucas Abegg and Jim Bayley (body doubles for Hammer and Pence) [22]
The indoor rowing scene was filmed at Boston University's indoor rowing tanks. All of BU's blue oars in the scene had to be repainted to Harvard's crimson color for filming.[21]
Soundtrack
Main article: The Social Network (soundtrack) On June 1, 2010, it was announced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would score the film.[23] The soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the Null Corporation label.[24] Leading up to the release of the soundtrack, a free five-track EP was made available for download. [25] The White Stripes' song "Ball and Biscuit" can be heard in the opening of the film and The Beatles' song "Baby, You're a Rich Man" concludes the film. Neither song appears on the soundtrack. Reznor and Ross won the award for best original soundtrack at the 2011 Golden Globes, [26] as well as the 2011 Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film itself contains 18 songs,[27] some of which are not found on the soundtrack. These include songs from The Beatles, Bob Marley, 10cc, Gluecifer, Dead Kennedys, and The White Stripes. The background song used in the club scene (in California) is performed by Dennis de Laat, and is called "Sound of Violence (Main Mix)". [28] It does not appear on the soundtrack
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Marketing
The first theatrical poster was released on June 18, 2010. [29] The film's first teaser trailer was released on June 25, 2010.[30] The second teaser was released on July 8. [31] The full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 15, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song "Creep", originally by Radiohead, covered by the Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers.[32][33] The trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films Inception, Dinner for Schmucks, Salt, Easy A, The Virginity Hit and The Other Guys.[34] Another song used in a trailer for TV featured an instrumental version of the song "Go Do" from the album Go by Jonsi.[citation needed]
Receptionandresponse
Responsebytheprincipals
The script was leaked online in July 2009. [35][36] In November 2009, executive producer Kevin Spacey said, "The Social Network is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be."[37] The Cardinal Courier stated that the film was about "greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex" and asked "although there are over 500 million Facebook users, does this mean Facebook can become a profitable blockbuster movie?"[38] At the D8 conference hosted by D: All Things Digital on June 2, 2010, host Kara Swisher told Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy with The Social Network being based on him, to which he replied, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." [39] Zuckerberg stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, explaining "this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic," and that he spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and coding Facebook.[40] Speaking to an audience at Stanford University, Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to "get girls", he says he created the site because he enjoys "building things".[41] However, he added that the film accurately depicted his real -life wardrobe, saying, "It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right like every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own." [41] Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz called the film a "dramatization of history ... it is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn't matter," he said. According to Moskovitz:
A lot of exciting things happened in 2004, but mostly we just worked a lot and stressed out about things; the version in the trailer seems a lot more exciting, so I'm just going to choose to remember that we drank ourselves silly and had a lot of sex with coeds.... The plot of the book/script unabashedly attacked [Zuckerberg], but I actually felt like a lot of his positive qualities come out truthfully in the trailer (soundtrack aside). At the end of the day, they cannot help but portray him as the driven, forward-thinking genius that he is. [42]
Co-founder Eduardo Saverin said of the film, "[...] the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary."[43] Sorkin has stated that, "I dont want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracys sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?" [44]
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Much of the negative response to The Social Network has come from technology writers, some of whom saw the film as an attack on new technologies and those responsible for them. [citation needed] Journalist Jeff Jarvis acknowledged the film was "well-crafted" but called it "the anti-social movie", objecting to Sorkin's decision to change various events and characters for dramatic effect, and dismissing it as "the story that those who resist the change society is undergoing want to see." [45] Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte concurred, calling the film "anti-geek and misogynistic".[46] Sorkin responded to these allegations by saying, "I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people". [47] Andrew Clark of The Guardian wrote that "there's something insidious about this genre of [docudrama] scriptwriting," wondering if "a 26-year-old businessman really deserves to have his name dragged through the mud in a murky mixture of fact and imagination for the general entertainment of the movie-viewing public?" Clark added, "I'm not sure whether Mark Zuckerberg is a punk, a genius or both. But I won't be seeing The Social Network to find out." [48] Several noteworthy tech journalists and bloggers voiced their opinions of how the film portrays its real-life characters. Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore, blogging for CNN, said: "If the Facebook founder [Zuckerberg] is concerned about being represented as anything but a genius with an industrious work ethic, he can breathe a sigh of relief." [49] Jessi Hempel, a technology writer for Fortune who says she's known Zuckerberg "for a long time", wrote of the film: The real-life Zuckerberg was maniacally focused on building a web site that could potentially connect everyone on the planetBy contrast, in the film he seems more obsessed with achieving the largesse that bad boy Sean Parker, an original Napster founder, portrays when he arrives to meet Zuckerberg at a New York restaurant. [50] Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig wrote in The New Republic that Sorkin's screenplay doesnt acknowledge the "real villain" of the story: The total and absolute absurdity of the world where the engines of a federal lawsuit get cranked up to adjudicate the hurt feelings (because "our idea was stolen!") of entitled Harvard undergraduates is completely missed by Sorkin. We can't know enough from the film to know whether there was actually any substantial legal claim here. Sorkin has been upfront about the fact that there are fabrications aplenty lacing the story. But from the story as told, we certainly know enough to know that any legal system that would allow these kids to extort $65 million from the most successful business this century should be ashamed of itself. Did Zuckerberg breach his contract? Maybe, for which the damages are more like $650, not $65 million. Did he steal a trade secret? Absolutely not. Did he steal any other "property"? Absolutely not the code for Facebook was his, and the "idea" of a social network is not a patent. It wasn't justice that gave the twins $65 million; it was the fear of a random and inefficient system of law. That system is a tax on innovation and creativity. That tax is the real villain here, not the innovator it burdened.[51] In an onstage discussion with The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington, during Advertising Week 2010 in New York, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she had seen the film and it was "very Hollywood" and mainly "fiction". "In real life, he [Zuckerberg] was just sitting around with his friends in front of his computer, ordering pizza," she declared. "Who wants to go see that for two hours?" [52] Indian-American Divya Narendra said that he was "initially surprised" to see himself portrayed by the non-Indian actor Max Minghella, but also admitted that the actor did a "good job in pushing the dialogue forward and creating a sense of urgency in what was a very frustrating period." [53]
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Criticalresponse
The Social Network has received critical acclaim; Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 261 reviews, with an average score of 9/10 and a critical consensus of: "Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest." It has a 100% among "Top Critics". [54] The film also holds a score of 95 based on 42 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim" and making it one of the site's highest-rated movies of all time.[55] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, giving it four stars, wrote: "David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive."[56] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, gave the film his first full four star rating of the year and said: " The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade." [57] The Harvard Crimson review called it "flawless" and gave it five stars.[58] Quentin Tarantino listed The Social Network as one of his favorite 20 movies of the year, second to Toy Story 3.[59] Some reviewers pointed out that the film plays loosely with the facts behind Facebook's founding. Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal praised the film as exhilarating but noted: "The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his supersmart and superbly funny screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed." [60] The film won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review, making it only the third film in history (after Schindler's List and L. A. Confidential) to sweep the "Big Four" critics. [61] The film also won the "Hollywood Ensemble Award" from the Hollywood Awards. [62][63] The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot.[64] Toptenlists The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2010. [65] 1st Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 1st Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 1st Christy Lemire, Associated Press 1st Andrea Grunvall, Chicago Reader 1st Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly 1st - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly 1st - Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times 1st - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times 1st - Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald 1st - Jim Emerson, MSN Movies 1st - Dave McCoy, MSN Movies 1st - Mary Pols, MSN Movies 1st - Stephen Holden, The New York Times 1st - David Denby, The New Yorker 3rd Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times 3rd - Ben Mankiewicz, The Young Turks 4th Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News 4th Richard T. Jameson, MSN Movies 4th Mike Scott, New Orleans TimesPicayune 4th Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News 4th Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News 4th Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club 4th Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel 5th Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle 5th - Richard Corliss, Time 5th - Melissa Anderson, Village Voice 5th Colin Covert, Minnesota Star Tribune
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1st - Now Magazine 6th David Ehrenstein, LA Weekly 1st - Tim Robey, Telegraph 6th Kat Murphy, MSN Movies 1st - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York 6th Jeremy Jahns, YouTube 1st - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post 7th Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club 1st - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal 7th Mick LaSalle, San Francisco 2nd Ty Burr, Boston Globe Chronicle 2nd Steve Ramos, Boxoffice Magazine 7th Claudia Puig, USA Today 2nd Empire 7th Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune 2nd Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood 8th Mark Keizer, Boxoffice Magazine Reporter 8th David Ansen, Newsweek 2nd Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood 8th Mike Russell, The Oregonian Reporter 8th Reverse Shot 2nd Sean Axmaker, MSN Movies 8th FX Feeney, Village Voice 2nd Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies 9th James Berardinelli, Reelviews 2nd Kim Morgan, MSN Movies 10th David Germaine, Associated Press 2nd Richard Broady, The New Yorker Alphabetical Lists without Rank 2nd Philip French, The Observer 2nd Tasha Robinson, The Onion A.V. Wesley Morris, Boston Globe Club Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine 2nd David Fear, Time Out New York J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader 3rd Clint OConnor, The Plain Dealer Rick Groen and Liam Lacey, The Globe (Cleveland, Ohio) and Mail 3rd - Anne Thompson, IndieWire Michelle Orange, Movieline 3rd - Don Kaye, MSN Movies Marc Mohan, The Oregonian 3rd - James Rocchi, MSN Movies Shawn Levy, The Oregonian 3rd - Noel Murray, The Onion A.V. Club Dana Stevens, Slate 3rd - Keith Phipps, The Onion A.V. Club Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3rd - Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle 3rd - Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times
Boxoffice
During its opening weekend in the United States, the film debuted at #1, grossing $22.4 million in 2,771 theaters. [2] The film retained the top spot in its second weekend, dropping only 31.2%, [2] breaking Inception 's 32.0% record as the smallest second weekend drop for any number-one film of 2010, while being the third smallest overall behind Secretariat 's 25.1% drop and Tooth Fairy 's 28.6% drop. As of February 27, 2011, the film has grossed $96,962,694 in the United States and $127,621,116 elsewhere, for a worldwide total of $224,583,810. [66]
Accolades
Main article: List of accolades received by The Social Network The Social Network won the Best Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. [67] The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night. [68] The film was nominated for seven British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Leading Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), Supporting Actor (Andrew Garfield) and Rising Star (Andrew Garfield) won three for Best Editing, Adapted Screenplay and Best Direction on February 13, 2011.[69]
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The Social Network received nominations for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay.[70] It won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, 2011.
Homemedia
The Social Network was released on DVD and Blu-ray January 11, 2011. In its first week of release, DVD sales totaled $13,470,305 and it was the number one sold DVD of the week. [71] The DVD includes an audio commentary with director David Fincher, and a second commentary with writer Aaron Sorkin and the cast. The Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD releases include the commentaries, along with a feature length documentary, How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?, featurettes, Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score, In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft, Swarmatron, Jeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals, and a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature.
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Seealso
The Winklevoss Chang Group, the alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub
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