THE SOCIAL NETWORK PLOT

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Read the plot of the film and then choose who did what in the story. Write the names of the characters next to the correct actions. Some names are repeated.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK PLOT

Mark Zuckerberg is an undergraduate student in Harvard Universtity. He’s a gifted students who loves computer programming. On a fall night in 2003, he had an argument with his girlfriend, Erica Albright, and they broke up, so he decided to blog his angry feelings about his girlfriend . Sitting at his computer he began working on a new idea. He asked his roommate Eduardo Saverin for help, and then, in a fury of blogging and programming, what began in his dorm room soon became a global social network and a revolution in communication. In one night, the network that he created collapsed the Harvard server. The Winklewoss brothers, a couple of athletic rowers at the campus, knew about the network and offered Zuckerberg the possibility to start a business together. Their Indian origin friend, Divya Narendra, will also be a partner in the business. But Zuckerberg’s secretive and solitary methods made him set up a network on his own, which meant the beginning of FACEBOOK and turned him the most popular man in Harvard. Later. Mark and Eduardo will meet Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster, who will give him some interesting suggestions to improve the network and make more money with it. Six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. The Winklevoss twins and Eduardo Saverin will sue Zuckerberg for several reasons. Through a series of flashbacks during the legal actions, we’ll learn the complicated origins of the most popular social network in the world: Facebook.
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