I saw a preview of a documentary before. In it, a girl embarked on a long journey of visiting friends, and the people she visited were basically the list of friends she had never met on Facebook. You can understand his mood through his status (new feeds), his appearance through his photos (photos), and even his activities through his events (events). But you don't know him, because what Facebook only provides you is a possibility of communication, but to really understand a person, what you need is real communication and cognition.
Mark is a millionaire, a technical genius, a madman, but he is a narrow-minded person. After he was dumped by his girlfriend, he blogged bitterly about her name and cups; after his friend and Facebook co-founder froze his funds, he used shares to drive them out of the company. But that doesn't stop him from having 5 million friends on Facebook because their lives don't intersect. In his real life, his best friend is suing him, and the girl he likes has not passed his friend invitation. So he was alone, he just refreshed facebook over and over again in the conference room.
The film alternates between the creation process of facebook and the debate of two lawsuits (which can be seen as internal and external events of facebook), and analyzes the difficulties faced by facebook's development and the ethical and legal issues faced one by one. Friendship and betrayal, change and growth permeate in between. Finch's simple and neat technique, coupled with the protagonist's astonishing speed of speech, presents such a story, which is innovative but lacking in strength.
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