‘The Social Network’ Is 10 Years Old
I re-watched it so you don’t have to — Facebook was bad then, and it’s bad now
As I sat through The Social Network for a second time I realized Facebook — and the internet — went way over Sorkin’s head. To be fair, the movie went over everyone’s head. In 2010, Facebook was still a digital novelty worth about $25 billion. I never thought it would mutate into a multi-headed threat to democracy worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
There are going to be people out there, dudes to be specific, who are going to claim in the comments that they divined Facebook’s trajectory from stalkers paradise to a powerful virtual nation-state.
Whatever.
Back then, Facebook was the social media platform that reminded you about the birthdays of high school friends who gained weight. It wasn’t supposed to be a massive disinformation engine that weaponizes fears and turns friends into enemies.
