The Social Network, the movie

Image by jdlasica via Flickr//Mark Zuckerberg, in the movie of his life

I avoided for a long time to see the movie about Facebook - or rather, about Facebook founder - because I am more interested in the phenomenon than in the personality. If not Mark Zuckerberg, somebody needed to create this network, as it was in the air of our time: a new generation, new skills and needs. A documentary movie was for me more tempting than an artistic movie.

And, I was right. The movie is focused on Zuckerberg's personality - his conflictual and clumsy social connections of the creator of a popular social network -, with some vague suggestions about the ways in which academia faced the online challenge, or the need to reconsider the intellectual property. From the artistic point of view, I couldn't see anything memorable.

But I don't regret I've seen the movie because I realize now what I will expect from a real documented production about social media and its influence on our times.

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Facebook messaging

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My impressions, as an intensive user of Facebook:I watched yesterday live the Facebook conference from Palo Alto, for announcing the new e-mail social platform. The persons with expertise in the industry already started giving their opinion on the limits and advantages of this new capabilities added to the social platform.

- The idea to develop the e-mail platform is welcomed. I would need to be able to better organize my e-mail system from Facebook in folders, preferences, categories. I have friends with contacts only on Facebook, and I would like to communicate with them directly on this social platform, instead switching to the usual e-mail.

- I didn't understand very clear the privacy setting for this application. How secure is, for example, the system, for preventing hacking. This new unified formula might be a paradise for the hackers. I don't have all my contacts on the same e-mail, but in the case of Facebook, I could have workmates, family, friends, acquaintances, VIPs. For a hacker, this is opening impressive perspectives on a complex network.

Most probably, there will be introduced other changes and new features once the system will continue to be tested. Don't know if it is good or bad, I would expect more attention for the privacy aspects.

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