You Know You Want It Too

                          Kid browses the Internet. Illustration by trrent


Facebook has never been much of my thing because I'd rather read the world wide news on Twitter. It sounds reasonable to me. Since people I know are stored on FB I don't have the need to check them all of the time.


Mark Zuckerberg proposes that people stay connected 24/7 on the new Facebook profile. He is gonna provide all you can think of on Facebook. Uhh, Internet within the Internet. I don't think it's something for me. I'm not engaged to Facebook in a way that makes me stay connected to it all day. Google is almost the same: it's everywhere on the Internet - everything seems to be floating around the giant web company.


Regarding Google it's a bit difficult to stay away as I have a gmail account. Nothing much against it - I don't have a Facebook email, though. Nonetheless, both companies, through interaction, provide charitable support, jobs, revenue and web services.


The new Facebook's profile is gonna revolutionize the market as we know it. It is gonna give marketers the chance to find the exact profile they are looking for. If you are really a Facebook user, prepare to be induced in whatever people are watching, listing, wanting. Facebook knows you want it too.

The social network soundtrack

Poster of 'facebook' movie on a bus stop, in Melbourne CBD

This weekend I went to the movies to see 'The Social Network', which I was anxious for a while. Bear with me - the movie is good, the story is utterly interesting. I value facebook now more than before - which wasn't much.

I was impressed by the cathartic pace of the film, and for the most of it, it runs like a documentary (a very good one). The film tends to be very analytic on the story, and it feels like you are watching the news on TV, but it is David Fincher, and it's his way to tell a story. I think it is his personal touch, and it's cool.

How can I say anything different about this movie than other popular sources did, like New York Times, Business Week? Well, I can't. What other sources paid little attention to is the amazing soundtrack, by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. I don't know if sighting Trent Reznor's name in the intro of the movie influenced me a bit - I have always been a fan of his band Nine Inch Nails. On the other hand, never heard about Atticus Ross, but, as it looks like, he has done a good job too!

The tracks are compelling, to say the least. They take the audience away and board them at this fantastic new reality, the first year of facebook. My girlfriend quote the songs as 'video game' soundtrack. Facebook is a game indeed: one of the co-founders won, Mark Zuckerberg, so I acknowledged her impressions.

The soundtrack could be compared to a hobby of Trent Reznor. I don't really know what his hobbies might be like, but to portray the songs as an intensive share of the movie like that, it's something that deserves an encore.