Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg has the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard students after his girlfriend Erica breaks up with him. Over the night, Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students. He creates in a few hours a website called "FaceMash.com", where male students can interactively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. After the head of the Harvard has been informed about what Zuckerberg has done, Mark has punished with six months of academic probation after hacking the Havard's computers and gained hatred from most Harvard female students. However, the popularity of "FaceMash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Winklevoss twins who were members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Narendra. As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection. Then Mark approaches his friend Eduardo and tells him of his idea for "Thefacebook", an online social networking website only for students of Harvard. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to support Mark, giving $1,000 to help start the site. They then distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix club, and it quickly becomes popular. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe that Zuckerberg stole their idea while on the process of stalling on their website. Cameron and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft, but Tyler convinces them they can settle the matter as Harvard gentlemen without resorting to the courts. The day when Mark and Eduardo went to a bar with two girls, Mark had a talk with his ex-girlfriend. At the same night, Mark decides to expand the site to more schools. Christy, Mark, and Eduardo return to Mark's room where they plan for the company. Facebook grows in popularity in short amount of time, and it expands to other schools in United States, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" progress without them. Tyler refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections, they arrange a meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in a lawsuit against Thefacebook website itself. Through Christy Lee, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster co-founder Sean Parker. When Mark, Eduardo and Eduardo’s girlfriend meet Parker at a restaurant, Eduardo becomes doubtful of Parker, noting his history. Mark, however, is impressed with Parker since he presented a similar vision of Facebook. Although no deals are reached, Parker suggests that they drop "The" from Thefacebook to make it simply "Facebook". That summer, Mark moves the company's base of operation to California because of Parker's suggestion, while Eduardo remains in New York for seeking advertising support. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is mad to find that Parker is living at the house and making decisions for Facebook. After an argument with Mark, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy and Eduardo argue about his Facebook relationship status. Christy accuses Eduardo of cheating on her then sets fire to a scarf he gave to her as a gift. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark angrily calls him on the phone about freezing the Facebook bank accounts and reveals that they have secured money from an investor through Parker's connection. After the call, Eduardo ends his relationship with her. Meanwhile in England, while competing, the Winklevoss twins become outraged that Facebook has expanded to a number of universities there and they finally decide to sue Mark. Eduardo has also discovered the deal he signed with Parker's investors allows them to dilute his share of the company from a third to .4% while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. He confronts his erstwhile friend Mark at his new Facebook office in L.A. and announces his intention to sue him. Later that night, Parker, along with a number of Facebook interns, is arrested for possession of cocaine during a party thrown because of Facebook's 1 millionth member. It is indicated that Mark had anonymously tipped off the police to raid the house where the party was held and probably had someone plant drugs at the party to intentionally have Parker and his interns arrested to remove them from the Facebook company. In the end of the movie, Mark is sending a friend request to his former girlfriend Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response that never comes.
After watching the movie "The Social Network", the way I look up into Mark has changed. I never thought that the idea of facebook was not really his. He was one of my inspirations before because he proved everyone that despite growing up without a lot of money, everyone can still achieve their goals as long as they work hard for it . It is sad that for him that even though he become the youngest billionaire of all time, he has not found his happiness until his wife and his daughter came which is pretty recent. He had to live with no one really cares for him. It is fascinating to think that it really is true that money can't buy anyone happiness.
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