Social Network

After watching the social network it really made it more clearly to me about the mentalities of Americans when it comes to business and money, and most of all technology. The movie was in my opinion a great movie.  The movie basically in a nut shell goes as follows, a kid named Mark from Harvard got broken up with by his girlfriend and he goes out and creates a web site that matches up undergrad female Harvard students and allows the user to judge the attractiveness of the female. On the blog that he writes he bashes his x-girlfriend. After talking his way out of trouble with the university he then goes on to create face book. This new online world grows rapidly and becomes worth more than anyone ever imagined. Shortly after it begins to blow up his best friend sues him along with two undergrads from Harvard.

                Face book is currently the most successful social networking site out there. After watching this movie it really made it evident to me that online worlds is what is certainly in our future. Mark had several big time investors who faith in this online world called face book. Investors would not invest in this if they did not believe that it would be successful and clearly they were right for investing in it because it is now connecting millions of people all over the world. People in America using face book and online networking sites are starting to become more involved with their online selves than there real selves in the real world. I know a friend who works at an insurance company who says that all he does all day is sit on face book and talk to his co-workers. This is crazy to me because he basically lives in two worlds along with the rest of the people at his work. The part of this that really scares me is thinking that eventually there will be no real world we will all strictly live in online worlds. There are very few things that prevent this from happening which are quite obvious our need to eat, sleep, drink, and have shelter. When you think about it these are the only things that really prevent this kind of thing from happening.  Are technology has advanced so much that it can even satisfy our sexual needs on line through videos. Our technology is moving so fast I believe that we as a society or even the government will have to put a halt on technology eventually. When I look at something like face book that took off so fast and is currently worth billions of dollars and people are suing each other for shares of it makes it so evident to me that eventually technology will have to stop advancing or else the real world will eventually be used to for nothing other than to eat, sleep, and drink water. You look at our currency system and everything is done online for the most part. We never even see the money that we spend for the most part which would make it so easy for our society to live in just online worlds for the most part.