The Social Network: What Have You Done Lately?

In the new movie The Social Network, starring Jessie Eisenburg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, the world gets to see a dramatic look at the creation of the biggest social connecting facet of all time, Facebook.

I highly recommend going to see this movie, it pertains to most of the world today just by what the movie is about. But it goes deeper in making the characters and the story behind Facebook come to life. The movie on a technical and content level are so well made I've seen it twice while in theaters, something I haven't done since the last of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's a serious yet seriously funny movie which if you do not like, you either are a fascist or just plain crazy.

But besides this movie being possibly the best of the year, it also has many moral themes which pop up and teach us all to become better people.

In the end of the movie Eisenburg as Zuckerbergs character says to one of his lawyers, "I'm not a bad person ya know."

And it is clear, but what is also clear is when people my age (19) and a little bit older get all the power and money, and just don't know what to do with it.

Zuckerberg ends up cutting his best friend out of the company, and then is hit with the realization that he messed up. He ends the movie "adding" the girl who broke his heart and started all of his projects because of his need to impress her.

We all think we are right about whatever we are dead set on being right about. But when we only focus on being right we can hurt the only people who mean anything to us in life. The movie banner says it best. Hence the picture I used for this post. Thats one thing I learned from the movie.

But the biggest thing I took away from the movie was what am I doing lately? Zuckerberg does all of this when he was in college, busy with class but yet so focused on this project that made him who he is today. So what have I done lately? What have you done lately? Are we living our life to the fullest of our abilities? You or me might even be the next "punk genius millionaire."