Win Passes to an Advance Screening of the Social Network!
Once simply dismissed as the “Facebook Movie” The Social Network is finally hits theaters on October 1st, and looks to be one of the biggest films of the Fall season. This film hasn’t even hit a multiplex and is already starting to get Oscar buzz thanks to a script by Aaron Sorkin, direction by David Fincher and a score by Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor.
The Social Network is the story of the founding of Facebook, a social networking site that if it were a country would be the 3rd largest in the world with over 500 million unique users. The film is very a Rashomon-like retelling of the founding from 3 very different perspectives, all surround the founding of a site that created the worlds youngest billionaire ever in Mark Zuckerberg.
The bag hasn’t been very mixed on this one, every one who walks out of a screening walks out a convert… and you too will have a chance before the film opens thanks to your friends at Geekadelphia. We have only 20 passes for two to a screening at the Ritz East on September 30th at 7:30. To enter simply comment with your thoughts on how you think Facebook has changed our world we live in today, and the top 20 will be joining me for an advance screening on Thursday September 3oth! Deadline is Friday at 5pm. Good luck!
if nothing else, Facebook has add a whole new dimension of awkwardness to family interactions during holidays. Why yes Great Aunt Mildred, that was in fact a picture of me surrounded by a group of fabulous gay men at a foam party…
Facebook has completely changed the way we communicate and share ideas, share our lives. Now when we have any thoughts, read something interesting, or now (with places) show up virtually anywhere, we can share it. With a click of a button.
Within seconds all our friends and family can know what we are doing and where. I could get off work and check my phone to see where everyone is at.
First cell phones, now facebook. We are a connected world.
Facebook has made playing farmville on my iPad both fun and rewarding.
Facebook’s greatest effect on our current world is privacy, or lack thereof. While some may use it with reckless abandon (talking about their boss, drunk pictures, etc.), a large number of others have had to learn the hard way that even maintaining the most modest amount of privacy isn’t that easy.
But for me personally, it remains just merely a social calendar…… and great stalking tool…..
Sci-fi writers have imagined the internet creating an alternate universe (see Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash). Projects like SecondLife have tried to implement this, but have universally failed and been relegated to hobby status.
Facebook’s most significant effect has been the existence of a near-universal space for commerce, socializing, music, arts, etc… It has accidentally created this alternate sphere of interaction, and with the ability to easily absorb and adapt, it will only continue to grow.
The first rule of the The Social Network is you do not talk about The Social Network.
…And If this is your first night at The Social Network, you have to fight.
facebook has made it possible for me to let other people know that i’m going to see the facebook movie one day early. solidddd
It’s reconnected people. People from high school, past neighborhoods, even out-of-touch family members. Only time will tell if it lasts as more than just another internet fad (friendster, myspace, etc).
Facebook has let us all know just what kind of horrible perverts our parents are. Yea Mom, I really needed to see those pics of you and my step-dad. There are some things that can just never be unseen.
Facebook is one of the defining entities in the space of social networks. Whether or not we like it, it’s here to stay and it’s influence is only going to grow. No one else is prepared to compete with it in its current form (only an increasingly small group stands a chance of doing anything about this, Google more than anyone else), and any new site/network will have to play catch up.
It’s becoming the electronic hub for many of our lives, with people sharing pictures and personal details, playing games, blogging, using IM to catch up, and sharing even the minutiae of their day. Facebook as a site knows more about us than any other entity (except possibly Google); they can use this to their advantage to target ads better than everyone else, and to tell us who/what we might like. With services like Places, and restaurants, businesses, musical artists, and more having their own pages, there is increasing integration between Facebook and the physical world even.
It’s the unofficial standard for social networking, and that’s only going to mean more and more going forward, allowing us to connect and see each other and the world around us in new ways.
Not only has Facebook changed the way people interact literally on a daily basis, but this movie looks fantastic.
Its created a revolution in the communication world and has brought a whole new paradigm of accessibility to all social movements and networks. Its biggest contribution to society is the concept of “awareness” which had been lacking for many generations.
Facebook has shown me that Justin Timberlake can be in a movie that generates Oscar buzz.
Facebook changed the way you can publicly humiliate yourself without even knowing it. It’s called tagging pictures.
The best thing about Facebook is that it finally got people to give up Myspace.
Facebook has clearly changed the way everyone, from college students to grandparents keep in touch with the people in their lives. I mean, seriously- wall posts and messages have somehow made emails (emails!) unnecessary! That’s kind of incredible.
The younger generation will never understand what privacy is. Everything they do will be tagged online and documented for the world to see, leading to unprecedented levels of narcissism and an impossibility to expunge their mistakes.
Also, I’ll always know when my friends need me to “fertilize” their farm or buy their jewels.
Yes facebook has made an impact on many lifes, its the best way to get in touch with people you lost contact with, and havent spoken with in ages, where you can show you’re old and new friends how more embarrassing youre life has become (tag pics). Hopefully it stays for longer than myspace.
Facebook has created a really polarizing magnet with social interaction. While appearing to bring us closer together, it naturally, by its nature, has separate us more and pushed us farther away from honest interactions. Some part of me feels that now the interactions that we do make, honestly, in real life, are only to be documented and shared on Facebook. Thats weird.
facebook has made me, and I’m sure others too, trust new web start ups less. What I signed up for is not what it became.
I moved around a lot growing up so now I can find and keep in touch with friends from all over the country and world.
Let’s stop beating around the bush and be honest. The number 1 thing Facebook is used for these days is stalking. Call it what you want but when you look up someone you haven’t formally met, or have met and are interested in them it’s called stalking. We’ve all done it, you want to see what they look like outside of the bar you just met them in, you want to read some of their info so you have conversation pieces next time you see them, you want to see what political/religious views they have so you can see if it’ll eve work, etc. Facebook should be added to Webster’s and should have a verb underneath it: Facebook-stalk (one word).
Another use that Facebook has in our lives is Live and interactive Email. Facebook is pretty much Email between you and your “friends” that is shared with the rest of the world and is interactive. Everyone uses it in this way as well, businesses, movie stars, young people, old people. I remember the day i got a friend request from my dad (age 62) I had to call my sister to see if it was real.
Facebook has changed social media and dare I say society in a huge way. I can not wait to see this movie and I hope it’s with you and the advanced screening. Thanks for the opportunity!
Pat
In A World….
No, seriously. We live in a world suffused with technology about which Guttenberg could never have dreamed. Any human with any connectivity at all can broadcast and publish information, data, art, ideas… to anyone in the world. Blog systems enable citizen journalism in a day when our mainstream news sources let us down. YouTube and other video engines enable artists to create media that is cutting edge, daring, experimental, and often wildly successful.
The problem is… it’s only a democracy in theory. In practice, the dominant power in the online world is undoubtedly FACEBOOK. Even giants like MicroSoft and Google bend their strategies around the Elephant In The Net. And this Power doesn’t come together from engineers dreaming in labs, or from marketing gurus, or even Rupert Murdoch’s Media Money Machine… but rather it springs from the mind, and more specifically the Ambitions, of Mark Zuckerberg. The ethics, the financials, the social design… and even the COLOR SCHEME come from the darker parts of just one man.
That’s a LOT of influence. If that idea doesn’t keep you up a bit at night… then you’re not paying close enough attention.
Facebook has revolutionized our lives and made this planet a global village. As what a typical social networking site does, we were able to connect with our loved ones who are far from us and gained friends from all over the world but Facebook had something in it that gathered millions of users and followers.
You ever break up with a girl, and try to slink away into solitude and the comfort of the anonymity of the internet? Well no more! Thanks to our handy dandy friends at Facebook, all of YOUR movements are tracked online! Going to a concert? There’s pics of that. Friend having a birthday? The event shows up on everyone’s newsfeed! Tagging makes it impossible to escape the clutches of this Skynet surrogate. All hail Facebook! I for one welcome our cybernetic overlords.
I think that facebook has made it easier to keep in touch with people, but then again I also think it has made people more lazy. Nowadays we don’t pick up the phone to talk to someone for 5 minutes, we have a wall posting to wall posting that lasts for 5 days.
@Detorn what? are you saying that every single startup’s goal is to create the new “facebook”, or that each and every new startup is creating a new social media website?
That’s sooo 2006.
Facebook is like a perpetual and perfect high school/college/family reunion. You get to see what everyone has been doing, while only revealing what you want to about your own life. There’s nothing like looking through 100 photos from a friend’s completely tacky wedding to entertain me on my lunch break.
It’s makes everyone think that they are important enough that others actually care what they are doing every 15 minutes and keeps the unemployed busy during weekdays