Questions on the content of the film "Social Network"

1. What do you think is the big priority necessity of Mark? Just by analyzing his behavior?

Focus only on himself and he doesn’t care about other people around him.

2. What differences do you notice from the way of communication back then and now?

Before the communications were face to face and it was more personal, the people spend time together, and today people talk by social media like Facebook, what Sapp, and share experience through these social media instead of do personally.

3. What kind of tool is the “Live Journal” that Mark use on the movie?

An online blog where people write about personal things.

4. Do you notice something different of this tool, about how we use it today?

Blogs were more personal and people used daily and today blogs are more for information.

5. What was a Facebook back then?

It was a site where people can have photos, names, of students.

6. What was the big difference of “The Facebook” with “My Space”?

The exclusivity, because in facebook you can decided which friends and photos have and also facebook was for exclusive use fot Harvard students.

7. Do you think his lack of ability to socialize, was an important fact for Facebook? Yes, no and why?

Yes, because with Facebook you didn’t need social abilities to talk with someone.

8. Do you think he should be innocent or guilty of the copyright of Facebook, and Why?

I think is Innocent, because many people had a similar ideas for the many types of social media launched media by the time of the creation of Facebook.

9. Can you mention a site that you could compare with the one that he creates at the beginning, while he is mad?

He creates Facemash.com which was similar to hotornot.com

10. How many hits this site got? What is a hit?

450 visitor and 22,000 photo views, a hit is the file requested when downloading a web page.

11. What could be the comparison for Facebook users with “getting punched” for Harvard students?

To being poked, which was when someone wanted to get your attention like being chosen.

12. What is your personal opinion of the phrase of Eduardo: “In a world where social structure was everything, that was the thing”

This phrase applied in our daily lives, because we humans are social dependent creatures, we depend on each other to achieve certain goals, that we otherwise would not achieve by doing them alone.

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