Rather than becoming dependable citizens looking for jobs, people like Mark Zuckerberg believe in becoming deviants, who go on to create jobs, and possess the cheek to do so without inheriting big bank accounts. One Mark Zuckerberg is sufficient to set millions of kids dreaming and doing awful damage to the tenets of civilized society, as we know it. Good boys should go through college, study as much as they can, and lose as much of their originality as they can, to become solid dependable workers for our industrial system. People like Mark Zuckerberg , just by their existence, incite others to think, something that has always been disapproved by good society, starting with the burning of Copernicus.
Little surprise then, that the new movie Social Network would portray the 25-year old billionaire in negative light, downplay his originality and spirit of entrepreneurship, and focus on his apparent greedy nature. Of course, a person who even in 2004 had no car, no house, and no job and in 2010 has an estimated worth of US$ 6.9 billion hurts middle class sentiments so much, that the only explanation to such meteoric success can be attributed to exceptional greed and crookedness. For that is how most of our opinion leaders garner success. There is no doubt that Mark Zuckerberg portrayed as a demon would find ready approval with moviegoers for the existence of people like Mark Zuckerberg, everyday, makes us aware of our own limitations.
Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook the top social networking site on the internet, a phenomenon with more than 500 million members, and a population that is greater than that of most countries in the world. Considering that in 2007, Mark Zuckerberg is rumored to have turned down offers from Viacom and Yahoo for close to $1 billion, it seems that he did the right job, even though his decision was criticized at the time. New York Times reported news of the deal, and at that time, it was reported that Yahoo's internal valuation of Facebook, as published in TechCrunch, projected that in the next three years, Facebook would reach 48 million users. Proving everybody wrong, Mark Zuckerberg led Facebook to 500 million users by 2010, more than ten times the predicted number.
An interview by Ellen McGirt in 2007 mentions Mark Zuckerberg thus: ''He looks every bit the geek in his zippered brown sweatshirt, baggy khakis, and Adidas sandals. He came into the room eating breakfast cereal from a paper bowl with a plastic spoon. He still lives in a rented apartment, with a mattress on the floor and only two chairs and a table for furniture. He walks or bikes to the office every day.''
That gives the picture of Mark Zuckerberg. People like him would be demonized as long as they live, and idolized once they are dead and gone. So, if you want to glut over the demonic side of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, don't miss the movie Social Network. It'll prove the suspicions of everybody right. Success like that of Mark Zuckerberg cannot be honestly achieved, because if such is true, then where does that leave most of us? We aren't losers by any chance, it's not that we can't be Mark Zuckerberg, but we won't be, because we choose to live by our principles, which sadly, as exposed by the movie, people like Mark Zuckerberg don't believe in.
