i wanna be a billionare

so i just saw the social network, and i want to talk about it... but let me set the scene for you first, because naturally, it's comical (or maybe just to me? meh, i never know)

alex, my best friend, and i head on out to our shitty mall. we realize neither of us had been through the main entrarence for ages and see that there are now only two restaurants in the food court when there used to be maybe seven, sweet. so we wander our way to the movie theater (which is located inside the mall), continue to use our student discount, post college, get in line- order the couple's combo (why not?), i return from the bathroom to see that alex upgraded our sodas for 50 cents to buckets of soda, as she commented on how fat our nation is. next we wander into the theater, we made some jokes about how we wished their was a love seat spot in the theater (i hope you know what i'm talking about, if not, just use your brain for two seconds) we get a kick out of the new alien movie coming out and then acknowledge that matt damon has two new movies coming out (i swear every time i go to the movies, matt damon is in two previews and is probably in the movie i'm seeing as well). so then we finally get to the featured presentation, not until we noticed that we were in a theater with two, legitimate couples, and then there was us, acting like immature assholes as we sucked down our liters-o-cola.


so the social network, was fantastic. i saw people raving about it, on facebook, (maybe people somehow got brownie points for gloating about a facebook movie, via facebook (maybe they got extra farmville or mafia wars points, however that shit works)) and had seen that the reviews were great, so here i sit, going with the grain. i'd be lying if i wasn't on the edge of my seat during the movie, because really, i was (it was pretty lame actually, i'm well aware of my nerdy-ness when it comes to social networking), while i usually sit, god willing there is an open seat in front of me, with my feet up, sunken halfway into my seat. i wanted to clap every time they made a big breakthrough, i laughed when he did something nerdy, i got sad when he and eduardo fought. overall i found it to be a well scripted, well cast, start to finish, i was entertained. success.

so let me take you through my facebook journey, which naturally alex and i shared stories about immediately after the movie. i think it's really awesome that my age group was really the first to get into facebook. my older sisters, who are three and six years older, slowly got into facebook. when i was in high school, a high school version of facebook came out, check. as soon as it merged, i was on it, check. so there i was sitting comfortably on facebook heading into my first year of college. uploaded classes i was taking, check. added my freshman year roommate as a friend, check. added the people in my hall as friends, check. i was on it, and where would i have been without it? without it i would have not met my best college friend right off the bat, or probably wouldn't have had a place to party the first night of school.

i think about the parts of the movie where mark talks about college being about sex; even if it's not necessarily about sex it's about, who's dating who, who's looking for a relationship, who is off the market, who isn't. it's so true. how would we know the relationship status of a person? it can be awkward to ask a person right away. facebook (and other forms of social media) have made it so easy to get to know a little more about a person, before actually getting to know them. it has turned into almost kind of a cheat sheet to social interaction. thanks facebook, for making it easier for me to know who was single and who wasn't, much appreciated.


so, in conclusion, i think i've got all sorts of great ideas, but i don't have any geeky enough friends to come up with something like that (i don't think), so i'll just stick to this for now and maybe someone will pay me billions of dollars for it later?