Went to the cinema last night (the awesome Showroom in Sheffield) to see The Social Network. Having just taken on an ex BBC Radio Producer (with vertigo!) as a part time PR specialist to help work on my events, social media has been high on the agenda for the last week or so. You may have noticed a revamp of my Facebook and Twitter profiles (please sign up if you haven’t done already as I am trying to post interesting stuff there each day). Coincidentally I also watched a popular Youtube video yesterday on the sheer power of social media. I shan’t list the various stats here (as that is mainly what the video is), suffice to say that it’s worth watching.
The film charts the dawn of Facebook by a couple of students at Harvard, the incredibly fast growth of the site into a phenomenon the likes of which the world has never seen before. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest in the world with over 500,000,000 users (and that is without China!). Owner and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest ever billionaire (born in 1984 and currently worth over $25Billion!). The main character in the film (played by Jesse Eisenberg), Zuckerberg made a lot of enemies along the road to where he is now which makes for a very, very absorbing and entertaining film. I went to bed last night thinking about Facebook and woke up doing the same, and here I am Blogging about it. It’s a funny old world we live in!
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