Why 'The Social Network' made me want to boycott Facebook
Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake in David Fincher's The Social Network I first heard about Facebook at university, around 2004/2005. At the time, I was studying at King's College, London. Everybody at King's was on Facebook. Like for most universities, there was a special category for us on the website: our own network. But one day in class there was a heated debate going on about this new rival to Hi5 (you remember that other social networking site that was so hot before Facebook?) In the middle of a class on moral philosophy, fellow student Rob passionately argued that the whole idea of Facebook was premised around elitism and exclusivity. At the time, I remember thinking, "gee what's Rob going on and on about? It's just a website! Relax bro! Sheesh." Rob then segued into further arguments about capitalistic society and Weber's iron cage. When I then spent a year in Belgium at one of the oldest universities in Europe, Facebook became an inva...
