Teaser Trailer of the Day: The second official teaser trailer for The Social Network — David Fincher’s highly-anticipated cinematic adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.
The film, which stars Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, and Andrew Garfield (spidey!), will hit theaters October 1.
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Earlier: Teaser #1.
I was pretty proud of this, but of course, like most of the self-proclaimed “genius” things I do, they go unnoticed.
I don’t miss playing FarmVille or Mafia Wars on Facebook. In fact, I regret ever playing them. I wish I had those hours back so I could waste them on something else, like a better video game. I also feel a bit sorry for the people addicted. If there was some sort of incentive involved, like a cash prize, it would make a bit more sense. But friends, don’t lose hope. Keep on clicking. Carpal Tunnel is just a few harvests or business extortions away.
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The genius of Google, Facebook, and others is that they’ve created services that are so useful or entertaining that people will give up some privacy in order to use them. Now the trick is to get people to give up more—in effect, to keep raising the price of the service.
These companies will never stop trying to chip away at our information. Their entire business model is based on the notion of ‘monetizing’ our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself—the “social norm,” as Facebook puts it—so that what we’re giving up doesn’t seem so valuable. Then they must gain our trust. Thus each new erosion of privacy comes delivered, paradoxically, with rhetoric about how Company X really cares about privacy. I’m not sure whether Orwell would be appalled or impressed. And who knew Big Brother would be not a big government agency, but a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley?
"David Lyons, “Google’s Orwell Moment” (Newsweek) (via sarahspy)
