I agree with a lot of Cathleen Falsani's piece on The Social Network, in which she praises Facebook's capacity for reconnecting real-world friends and reinforcing existing community. But she loses me when she suggests this is the site's purpose. I think it's difficult to define this, and I'm not sure how much it matters.
Rarely do I see a film when
it first comes out, but I'm very glad I chose to see The Social Network on its box-office-dominating opening weekend. It was
brilliant-a fantastic script by Aaron Sorkin, skillfully directed by David
Fincher. It tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his
friends and Facebook cofounders, but the film isn't just about Facebook. It
even features several significant religious themes.