The social network and how it is changing It has been said and written a lot about
The Social Network in turn the "film about Facebook" or its founder, the youngest billionaire in the world, a film about betrayal, about friendship.
A film that is much more of its writer, Aaron Sorkin, which director David Fincher (and much of its interpreters), which is much more the story of people, not a business, much the way that we use today and are used by our obsessions and our desires, to whom we have close and who we want around us.
The film and the various considerations read around I was reminded this afternoon, while traveling to attend
Venice Sessions ,
titled "Love in the digital age" (from 9.30 am tomorrow, transmitted
Live ).
The Network - and Facebook, of course - have changed our way to build relationships and maintain them: in ten years and six network of blogs, I can not count the number of friends, work, thanks to the Net Creates pairs But one thing that makes me wonder most is how he changed the Our notion of time and waiting in relationships with others.
"
'll have a phone close to that means already waiting " Baglioni sang in other decades (and even there - curiously - there was a friend who had disappointed, betrayed and deceived.) Now maybe we will not be at home, but we check our page frantically, waiting for our friend request is accepted, is to receive a reply to our message, like the video that we shared, a comment to our status, which we may have to put there deliberately, thinking that others see him, hoping that someone will answer (and awareness, resulting in a joke, typical of the attitudes on Facebook is primarily on Facebook). Our waiting
hard - has to last - very little, the space of a refresh, what Mark Zuckerberg continues to do at the end of the film, to check if his ex-girlfriend accepted his friend request on Facebook.
The social network is perhaps even a film about how we've changed, how is changing our way of being with others - and perhaps nothing is more symptomatic of Facebook in many ways - how different is the approach and understanding of the world "this generation" referred to often speak pompously, without ever really knowing precisely delineate the boundaries.
In one of the most interesting pieces (and the broader perspective), entitled "Generation Why?"
Zadie Smith explains best of all:
Watching this movie, even though you know your Disapproval Sorkin wants, you can 't help feel a little swell of pride in this 2.0 generation. They've died in decade Being berated for not making the right sorts of novels or paintings or music or politics. Turns out the brightest 2.0 Kids Have Been doing something else extraordinary. They've Been making a world.
