I’m a straight up Facebook addict. I spend hours and hours each day on this site. Needless to say, when I heard that a Facebook movie was coming out in theatres, I got really excited. I jumped on the 99 B-Line to the downtown Scotiabank theatre to watch The Social Network on opening night.

Knowing nothing about the history of Facebook, I was shocked to find out that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator, might have acted in unethical ways in order to get Facebook to where it is today. With more than 500 million users, it has knocked other social networking websites such as Friendster and Myspace out of the ring. Three other Harvard students insist that they first came up with the original idea and that Zuckerberg stole their idea. Mark Zuckerberg, also allegedly got into a feud with his best friend and co-founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, over shares of the company.

Now, I was just wondering, is this all really worth it? Getting into lawsuits with classmates and fall outs with your best friend in order to create this company that has impacted the lives of millions of people all over the world? As a consumer, or user of Facebook, I’m so grateful to Zuckerberg and everything he’s done- no matter what he did.  I’m all for business ethics and acting in honest, transparent manners; however, if Zuckerberg acted that way, maybe we wouldn’t have Facebook today. Like the tagline of The Social Network states, “You don’t get 500 million friends without making a few enemies.”

Extra links:

–Fun statistics about Facebook

–Interview with Mark Zuckerberg

–Information about Eduardo Saverin