The Average Jo Blog

So allot of us are probably seeing the hype today about the upcoming movie “The Social Network”  the Facebook story.  Let me first say that even though I check Facebook about 30 times a day I still somewhat dislike the company.  Not so much because of how the site works but more because of the origins of the company.  We all probably know the story about how facebook got started and how Zuckerberg “borrowed” the idea from ConnectU.  (here is a good timeline of events on the origin of facebook and ConnectU. http://bit.ly/9MWEWF ) I see myself as an entrepreneur and hope one day to start my own web company. So seeing where I come from the whole Facebook past rubs me the wrong way.  

Here is the trailer in case you haven’t see it already. 

Despite all this the new trailer looks promising, and looks like it might tell the true story about how Facebook was started. At first I didn’t want to watch this movie because I thought it was going to make Zuckerberg look like a god and not mention the shady past of facebook. But overall it looks like a decent movie, and might tell the real history of Facebook.  I guess we will have to wait for it to hit theaters to see if it tells the true story.  

Maybe to honor the true origins of Facebook we should “borrow” the movie from torrent sites! 

Questions:

What are your thoughts on the movie?

Will you watch it when it comes to theaters, wait to rent it, or DL it?