The social network

The social network is a movie about Mark Zuckerberg and the invention of a social network called facebook. I chose Mark Zuckerberg as an anti-hero . Mark is a undergraduate at Harvard University in the united states of America.  He is very intelligent and talented in coding and computer skills. You can see this during the lesson scene of the movie where he is not focusing on the lesson but before leaving he still knows the right answer .

From the start of the movie you can see his anti-social behaviour from the way he treats his girlfriend. After she breaks up with him he writes comments about her and other people from his university on his blog. This gives him the idea to create a website called Facemash which is a service to compare and rank the looks of students from the university using pictures illegal obtained from university websites . This makes puts him in trouble with University authorities . During asking questions Mark shows off his arrogance and demands recognition from the University Staff because he bypassed securities set up by technicians.

He is then found by a pair of successful sport athletes from this university. Who want him to create their project “The Harvard Connection” a social network exclusive to Harvard. Mark takes this job but has no intention of helping, he concentrates on his project called “thefacebook”. But before he can launch this new service he needs money and he asks his friend Eduardo who agrees to give him money but he will have some shares in his company and be one of the founders.

As the project evolves and is launched the site becomes more and more popular and the same happens to Mark and his partner Eduardo. While Mark is focused on making thefacebook popular and cool Eduardo wants to make money from it using advertising. He schedules meetings with potential partners during which Mark shows his anti-social behaviour by not focusing and making sounds causing the advertisers to think he is not serious because of his rudeness. He recognises that Eduardo does not believe in this project despite the popularity and growth it gets. Mark soon meets the founder of Napster Sean Parker . Sean impresses Mark with his potential and professionalism.

Soon after Eduardo engages in more outside projects Mark takes and slowly induces Sean into his place he also dilutes his shares for other investors as well as removes him from the position of co-founder. This makes me label him as an anti-hero the most.

Mark is antisocial to other people. Despite his intelligence he can not hold his friendship with his Harvard University friend Eduardo and replaces him even though he was his best friend. He used Eduardo for the money and left him. Mark Zuckerberg definitely lacks heroic attributes due to his personality and actions.