Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect already sounded more promising than the rest of the readings in my opinion. I only feel that way because it's the most current topic circulating my life at least. Of course, the story of Mark Zuckerberg's vagillion dollar website begins the book. I haven't seen the movie so I can't compare the book to "The Social Network."
I never knew about Facemash (p. 23) and how this was sort of a precursor to the ever popular social media website controlling how we live our lives. "He didn't ask permission before proceeding. It's not that he sets out to break the rules; he just doesn't pay much attention to them." (p. 24). I feel that Kirkpatrick paints Zuckerberg fairly throughout the book. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a rebel of the internet, or at least Harvard.
I honestly thought the book was going to be some psychosocial analysis of how Facebook users are affected by immersing their lives from reality to a virtual world and that virtual world becomes their new reality. I would have definitely enjoyed a book like more than one about how it got started. Simply reading about the origins of Facebook can get really boring. The behind-the-scenes look at how it was created was a little interesting, but it got redundant which I felt about most of the books we read in class so far. I going to stay optimistic about the last 2 sections we have to read for The Facebook Effect.
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