Facebook, How Harvard College Students became Rich

Of all the books we have read this semester, this one I can not stand. I get the whole platform Facebook has created. It has literally personalized the internet and revolutionized the way people interact with one another. Yet, I have to be frank when I say i find it easier to watch paint dry then to Read about Zuckerberg and Co. They take a concept that technically was not theirs in the first place then personalize the concept of an online facebook to how they saw it would work best. How I wonder did they get that money as twenty year olds with full course loads? I am questioning that aspect before they got involved with Parker and others who invested in the company. Obviously this money came from their parents. Maybe its sour grapes I am not sure, but for me this book so far seems like a biography of how rich kids walked around in pajamas into board meetings while reaping the benefits of college students from many schools wanting to be part of an "it" group consisting of Ivy league college students. These guys, mainly Zuckerburg, may have been the brainchild on creating Facebook, but not the concept of an online social network. I don't know, The origins of Facebook just do not have much appeal to me. What I did find interesting though was in the prologue how that guy Oscar Morales was able to set up a group against FARC in Columbia. I do find that concept of what Facebook has done pretty interesting on the sociological front of society itself. It does seem Facebook has evolved from just a college networking site for kids to hook up. I mean the idea of a guy creating a group on Facebook that grew into a nationwide movement against rebels in Columbia is pretty fascinating. To that extent one has to realize whether for better or for worse Facebook indeed has changed the social landscape. It is interesting to point out that when Facebook bridged the gap of being solely for college students and became open to everyone that it really changed aspects of society. It may have absorbed some of the wrong aspects of Myspace (Just that false image, instead of retaining who one truly is) but Facebook it seems has been able to stem that to an extent and develop communities of people who can actually stand for something. Case in  point One Million Voices Against FARC. That is interesting.