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I’m not on Facebook, or MySpace, or Linkedin, or Friendster, or any of those useless social networking sites. In Communist Russia, the Secret Police compiled all sorts of valuable information about people — who their friends and family were, where they worked, what sort of crappy music they listened to. In Corporate America, we create our own databases of blackmail material. It’s as though we’ve collectively chosen to violate our own privacy, so we can have our own dopey little landing page on the Internets.
This is coming from a guy who blogs, but still. What do you really know about me apart from my taste in movies?
I’m being facetious. I used to have Facebook and MySpace and Linkedin pages. But I ultimately deleted them when I realized they were simply cataloges of high school buddies I’ve barely spoken to in 10 years and co-workers I see every single day. I’m also not much of a paparazzo, either. On my pages, there were all of two pics of me, not dozens upon dozens of albums of my friends and me in various contexts. I don’t understand why people have to create a virtual flip book of their lives, photographing their every waking moment. People do, though. And those people can get a lot more mileage out of social networking sites. I just wrote a criminally unread blog on my MySpace. I’ve clearly moved on to bigger and better things.
At any rate, in Hollywood’s continuing effort to make sure that no original idea is translated to the big screen, Aaron Sorkin — creator of television series and movies I’ve avoided like herpes — is developing a movie about the origins of Facebook. You can even visit Sorkin’s Facebook page to learn more about the project. I’d one day like to put the word “synergy” into a rocket and fire that rocket into the sun. But that’s a whole nother blog entirely.
Is there an audience for this? Web development isn’t exactly the most cinematic subject for a film. If you want to watch a helluva movie about the creation of a website and the implosion of a friendship, check out the documentary, “Startup.com.” I can’t imagine “Facebook: The Movie” will have nearly as much human drama. Now, “AdultFriendFinder.com: The Movie” might be a movie worth seeing.
-Brad Lohan
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