“The Same Thing We Do Every Night Pinky…”

The race to take over the world has been getting interesting, and Facebook just pulled ahead. If you think Facebook isn't in the process of building a search engine, I think you're crazy. Last week Facebook launched its own messaging application, Facebook's own twist on email. Today, Facebook landed a major coup against Google in their competing bids to take over the world. Apparently Facebook has overtaken Google in web traffic, getting 3% more visits and unseating Google as the most visited site on the internet over the period of a week. Not only that, but Facebook accounts for 25% of all web traffic in the U.S. Wait, what? 

Social Network, The Founding of Facebook, and The Minds Of Silicon Valley

 "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies." First of all, something tells me if I had 500 million friends I'd be more than alright having a few enemies. That's a sentiment that I'm sure that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook identifies with. Second, the enemies of Zuckerberg as portrayed in the movie Social Network all eventually see a handsome payday so how villainous can they really be—plus I bet they all have a Facebook page. Third, nothing discussed above really has anything to do with the larger story, the deeper narrative, the fascinating tale that is Facebook and the way social networking is changing the world, so what was the point of the movie? The point isn't that the world is changing because of the mind of Mark Zuckerberg and that's a problem.