The Social Network

I saw The Social Network originally in 2010 when it was released. Mostly because I was curious as to who Mark Zuckerberg was and am a fan of the off-beat films that Jesse Eisenberg has been a member of. Although I am assuming that the real Mark Zuckerberg is a little bit more charismatic than the Zuckerberg that was portrayed in the film (since most articles or interviews of Zuckerberg have portrayed him as just a "normal guy"), I still find a connection between him and Steve Jobs.

The whole idea of both of them being geniuses is just the tip of the iceberg. First off, the idea of bringing people together, technology being for the masses. Jobs saw Apple as a way to connect people to the digital world and expanding his inventions to massive amounts of people. Zuckerberg really ended up doing the same thing, just with social networking... Technically, they both feed into each other. Jobs gave us the facility to connect and Zuckerberg gave us the ability. I feel like Zuckerberg is also just as cut-throat as Jobs is, just maybe in a more charismatic way, which almost makes it worse. He did, after all, technically steal the idea of Facebook from "The Facebook" and has had quite a few lawsuits against him and his business tactics (maybe it's all just a learning curve). Jobs did run a more mature company, but that could also be attributed to his anal personality and OCD.

I understand that Hollywood probably made the movie a bit more dramatic than Zuckerberg's life actually was when he was in college and creating Facebook, but from what I understand, Zuckerberg did enjoy the movie and the portrayal of himself as an extremely focused and driven young man. After all, the movie did fit an entire six years into a two hour movie. So, possibly, the next genius that Hollywood should take on and make into a blockbuster would be a movie about Steve Jobs... oh wait, isn't that already in the works? I believe Ashton Kutcher has been cast... which doesn't make any sense to me, after reading the biography of Jobs.. but that, I'm afraid, is for another post.