Cell Phones and their Technosocial Sites of Engagement - Amber Case Thesis. 163413_479288597199_9445547199_5658562_14158417_n.jpg (PNG Image, 2368x1179 pixels) Generation Why? by Zadie Smith. The Social Network a film directed by David Fincher, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier Knopf, 209 pp., $24.95 How long is a generation these days?
At the time, though, I felt distant from Zuckerberg and all the kids at Harvard. In The Social Network Generation Facebook gets a movie almost worthy of them, and this fact, being so unexpected, makes the film feel more delightful than it probably, objectively, is. But something is not right with this young man: his eye contact is patchy; he doesn’t seem to understand common turns of phrase or ambiguities of language; he is literal to the point of offense, pedantic to the point of aggression.
ERICA: I have to go study. MARK: You don’t have to study. ERICA: How do you know I don’t have to study?! MARK: Because you go to B.U.! Simply put, he is a computer nerd, a social “autistic”: a type as recognizable to Fincher’s audience as the cynical newshound was to Howard Hawks’s. With rucksack, naturally. The Republic of Facebook | The Facebook Economy Facebook continues to gain popularity and commercial success, as more and more people around the globe sign-up and using additional applications (apps).
There are well over 550,000+ apps that are used on Facebook and millions of pages with everything from personal information, home-made videos and advertisements. With over seventy percent of their 1 billion users engaging with apps every month, it is not wonder that there are well over two million app developers. Zynga, Facebook’s top application developer, made $250 million in 2009 and continue to be profitable. Of that amount, $80-$150 million is estimated to be profit, more net profit than Facebook itself made. Facebook’s Most Popular App Developers The following represent the most downloaded and used apps on Facebook.
Zynga, Rock You! Facebook Pages and More In 2009, there were 1,500,000 active Facebook pages. If Michael Jackson were still alive and had 13.3 million fans, he would have a page worth $1.8 billion. Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide.