The Plotline

In 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg creates a website called “Facemash”to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates. The site is a runaway success, getting 22,000 hits in less than two hours and crashes Harvard’s server.

Punished with academic probation, Mark gets himself a job as the programmer for the website, Harvard Connection, initiated by Winklevoss twins. However, Mark in partnership with his friend, Eduardo, takes the idea further and launches what he calls “TheFacebook”.

With the growing popularity of The Facebook, they expand to other schools. Soon, Mark and Eduardo meet Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who suggests that they drop “The” from“TheFacebook”. Facebook shifts base to Palo Alto and gets its first investment from an Angel Investor, again through Parker’s contacts.

Some lessons you will learn

The movie clearly shows that to succeed one must have the courage to go where others have never gone and stay true to what you believe in. Here are some 3 lessons that you will learn in the movie.
1. It’s not about who has an idea but who can execute it.It is for the fact that facebook was Mark's original idea but he is the one who executed what others dreamed of. So quit dreaming and start executing your dreams
2..Visualize success as your final result. One of the great things about “The Social Network” is that from the beginning, you know that success is on the other end of Zuckerberg’s efforts.
3. When you have a great product, money finds you.  As the old saying goes, vision precedes provision. When you’ve created a great product that gives great value and is of service to your consumers, they will tell their friends. If you keep delivering the same high level of value and also constantly improve the value you are giving, money will find you. 

Conclusion

I think it is a great irony that the creator of the ultimate social networking platform lost acceptance from everyone that once befriended him. It is rightly said that greed sees nothing else. And when it does, being at the top becomes all the more lonely. With so many youngsters turning entrepreneurs, this should prove to be a significant film. Any one who wants to be an investor in technology being either a Software developer, Computer Programmer or any Information Technology practioneer, this is a movie to watch

Ambitions and aspirations make for a good economy but relationships make for a great society.

Here is a trailer of the movie