Layla Brownfield

TheFacebook in 2004. Zuckerberg’s role in relation to his Harvard peers, especially cultural differences between the he and Eduardo Saverin, Sean Parker, and the Winkelvosses. (Layla Brownfield) In the movie, The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg has an odd relationship to his peers from Harvard. For one, it seems as if he’s on a different type of creativeness than the rest of them. He creates Facemash, which although it was an extremely immature thing to do, was also very creative. This was 2003, and with the way the movie portrays the Harvard students’ reactions to the ‘Hot or Not’ website being created, it seems as if none of them had ever come across something similar or along the same lines of it. Plus, Zuckerberg created it out of anger-- it only took him four hours! Obviously, he wasn’t in the clearest mindset, yet he was still able to create Facemash and succeed with it (before getting caught by the school, of course!). It may not have been that he was smarter than ...

       In his TedTalk, one of the very first points Michael Patrick Lynch makes is something I completely agree with. Around a minute in, Lynch says, "... it seems as if the more information we share and access online,   the more difficult it can be for us to tell the difference   between what's real and what's fake.   It's as if we know more but understand less". Now that I have heard him say those words, I realize just how true they are. In a way, it relates to the last TedTalk we listened to, which was by Andreas Ekstrom. Ekstrom talked about how search results are usually biased based on the writer of the article we look at. Lynch saying it's difficult for us to see what may be real versus what may be fake can tie in because biased authors can be twisting truth to make a person look better, or even worse.     Around two minutes in, Lynch asks the audience, "So how are we going to solve this problem of knowledge polariza...

   In Andreas' Ekstrom's tedtalk, he manages to catch mine, and probably many other listener's, attention with the question he asks; "Why do you Google?". The responses he got from students he had asked in the past were very similar to reasons I Google, along with the fact that Google seems to always provide the exact answer for my homework that I happen to be looking for! Plus, Google is fast, quick, and as simple as search engines seem to get. Other search engine, like Bing, Yahoo, and even Ask, never fail to become confusing. They usually do not provide me with the best results at first, plus, having ads all over the web page is not my favorite thing to see. One big answer that Ekstrom said he always gets goes along the lines of, "With Google, I'm certain to always get the best, unbiased search result".    Around 1:58 in his tedtalk, Ekstrom brings up the point that controversial questions bring up web pages and articles that are not biased, but ...