Software Design and Architecture

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This time, I will write about the documentary video entitled "Mark Zuckerberg: The Real Face Behind Facebook". The documentary exposes how Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook, but not everything was a fairy tale. Again, I'll analyze some of the points of the documentary instead of writing a recap (as I did in the "Revolution OS" entry).

The first point to review is Mark's childhood. Many times, kids are kind of agressive with other kids that are "different". We can relate Mark's actual behavior to his childhood. When a kid is harassed, he or she automatically turns insecure in everything. In my case, I corrected that behavior in college (when I was 16-17 years old). Mark did after his D8 interview. Many people don't see this, but harassing other kids may affect for the rest of our lives. In Mark's case, he turned insecure... And "dangerous".

Now, let's talk about all the Facebook scandals. First of all, we already know that the greatest IT people is not known by being honest. We find the same pattern of someone taking someone else idea as his own (this is why we are taking ethics courses). Unfortunately this pattern is the initial action to a great company, but in my opinion, we (as people) can do better than that.

Then, we have the event Zuckerberg-Saverin. I think that not giving credit of something to someone who always trusted your idea is really disgusting. Zuckerberg did not have valid arguments to take this action, but sometimes the ambition can change people's mind. 

Afterwards, we have "The social network" thing. As we have seen with other IT people, when you are famous, you are exposed to be critiziced (as well as applauded). I think that when Zuckerberg made public a donation in the Oprah show, he just exposed himself as a person who did a lot of things that appeared in the movie, but he just wanted to send another message with just one action... Not convincent at all.

Finally, I will write about Facebook involved in problems like cyberbulling and Facebook privacy. Nowadays, Facebook is used to spread information... ALL the information. If we want to harass someone, we take some private and embarrasing information and put it on Facebook (so everybody knows about it). Again, the people do not know the consequences of their actions and the person they harass can be affected. The point here is that Facebook is not guilty of the actions of the people, but the thing is that they provided the means to those actions... Complicated stuff, uh? About the data privacy, let's remember all the information on Facebook is not ours... It belongs to Facebook. Many people is not happy with this, but when we accept the terms and conditions, we are accepting that all the information, photos, videos and so on, are property of Facebook... Yes, we should read carefully before accepting anything.

Finally, Mark Zuckerberg is a great programmer/computer science person, and everybody loves Facebook, but he is also a human like everybody else, and as a human he has defects. I am not trying to justify his actions; indeed, I want to remark that as a human he might act in order to harm someone or to benefit himself.

Wow, I really missed blogging. I hope you liked this. Also the video is available here.

See ya!