Hey, that's my idea!

Imagine this, you are worth billions of dollars just by being geek. You have millions of online friends. And basically, you just created one of the most influential websites in our generation. Unfortunately, you realise that this is just an illusion and that you are actually not that lucky guy.

To make things worse, you could have been that guy, but this precious opportunity slipped from your hands. poof

The Social Network (2010) movie poster via www.impawards.com

I guess, this is one thing that film The Social Network (2010) is all about. I'm expecting that everyone knows about it by now. It's scandalous. It's hip. It's about Facebook. But there are more to it than the story of Facebook's creators, there are a lot more stories going around the Internet about the other social networking sites that were created same time as the infamous Facebook was brought to life. There is this news about the Columbia University's own Facebook version, CU Community, which was founded by Adam Goldberg. To sum it up, Harvard's Facebook was on a tight race for online popularity with Columbia's CU Community. Goldberg had a chance to join in the Facebook bandwagon but he refused. Now, I guess, it's one of those things you would wish you could turn back the time.

Here is a link to the full article about Goldberg and his social networking site, The Other Social Network on Slate.

My thoughts? Well, I guess, almost everything that was ever invented has an intriguing story behind it. From the invention of the telephone to the latest gadgets, people are always beating each other up to get the all the glory. Truth is (or not) it's a dog eat dog world. As Herbert Spencer once said, 'Survival of the fittest'.

And to those of you who have been under the rocks lately, here is The Social Network trailer.

Are you going to watch it in the cinema?