PThiel re: FBook
[...]believes the right company "won" the social media wars: Its great rival, MySpace, founded in Los Angeles, "is about being someone fake on the Internet; everyone could be a movie star," he says. He considers it "very healthy," he adds, "that the real people have won out over the fake people."
Technology=Salvation, A+++ headline!
Have you seen the movie? It is definitely worth seeing. Director of : Zodiac [amaaaaazing], Fight Club and Seven. Same screenwriter as The West Wing and Studio 60 [RIP you magnificent folly]. Seriously, I resisted seeing it, but AJT forced me and I was completely wrong. It's riveting. I got really involved and caught up in it. I give it an F for Fantastic!
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Yes, THE MOVIE had me starting a love affair with it from the opening scene!!
Unlike you, I'd actively looked forward to it FOR MONTHS because the trailers blew me away...and still it vastly exceeded my expectations and perhaps even hopes!
The dialog speed, non-repetition, story always moving forward...wow on all counts.
Randoms:
The computer screen (laptop) first seen in the whole movie is livejournal's 2003 web interface! Unrealistic that Zberg wasn't using a standalone client, but that's a movie compromise well worth it for wider audience recognition. 100% of our theater did great smiling doubletakes throughout his drunken lj night!!*
I thought, "Sorkin's pioneering the 'drive & talk'!"
*J & I were the ONLY ones in a huge theater for it at 3:45PM this Thurs. I LOVE how fast Sorkin can plummet from top ratings/box in the world to empty ghost towns. WAY TOO SMART, he creates a huge negative word-of-mouth buzz, like Studio 60. I still watch "The Cold Open" ep of Studio 60 almost once a year.
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David and I are going to see the movie this week for date night. I'm betting it's pretty empty at 8ish on a Wednesday night, too, but I'll let you know.
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Awesome!
You'll love the movie.
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I wouldn't say ridiculous, and I love to say ridiculous.
MySpace was way more cluttered with spam, fan pages, music allegiances, flashing animations, unclean layouts, geocities throwbacks...
FB does seem a lot more honest & real than its dead competitors. Of course it also helps that everyone has several real-life-important contacts from their past on there, so FB's sheer success -- total ubiquity in U.S. culture -- keeps everyone's main accounts under extreme social pressure. I like that.
For more private explorations of our full personalities, we keep LJ going!
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