Another point of view.....

Rating: 8/10 (17 September 2012)

****This review may contain spoilers****
Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin are college buddies who are eager to meet the girls on their campus. After Mark is dumped by his girlfriend, the two put their brains together and come up with the idea to create a web page. The web page allows one to compare pictures of girls on their campus and rate them. After they complete the web, the web link is sent via email to their classmates. The site did give them recognition, but not in the way they anticipated because Mark receives academic probation for crashing the schools servers, the female population on campus shuns both of them and gains the admiration of the male community for their creativity. The school does shut down the web page, but the popularity was not easily erased. The recognition caught the attention of the Winklevoss brothers, who reach out to Zuckerberg. They ask Mark for his help to create an exclusive dating website for their campus, but Mark comes up with a better idea. With the help of Eduardo business intelligence, the two create a single website that would allow college students the ability to simultaneously communicate with each other and share pictures. The Social Network depicts the story of how word of mouth was a powerful tool for spreading the word. Then Mark's creative mind takes social networking to a different level with the release of his website. Does the new website work in the way they anticipated and give them the notoriety they seek? Jessie Eisenburg and Andrew Garfield show convincing roles as college students, who thrived on the intention of reaching for notoriety on their campus. Many college students may breeze through college, but struggle to get a decent job. Esienburg and Garfield illustrate the role of college students who try in achieving the fame not ever reached. Or do they? Are the two creative minds able to take social networking to a different level with the help of computer programming and the internet? Bring It On Again (2004) showed us how cheerleaders used their creativity to draw attention to creating new squad for their college. This effort took them days and probably weeks to get the word out to their campus; not mention the sweat and tears. What if the cheerleaders of BIOA had the innovation and technology shown in TSN? The possibilities could be infinite and shocking at the same time.