The Accidental Billionaires- Ben Mezrich pgs. 1-100

This book is about a network that changed the modern world. Facebook is in most peoples daily routines and even daily dialogue. It gave us all a new way to connect to people and its fascinating how it has changed the way we look at relationships and relate to people. However, before we all could put Facebooks monumental success to use, it had to be put to the test. Facebook is the creation of a Harvard graduate computer whiz named Mark Zuckerburg. The computer Genius first experimented with the idea in 2003 when making a sarcastic, and semi- cruel college web game where he posted girls faces and had people vote which one was hotter. The girls were all students at Harvard, and their names were posted below. The website was called 'Facemash.com'. After this, Zuckerburg was no longer just a computer nerd. He made something that his fellow students appreciated. Maybe not the girls included in the facemash site though. The book depicts the first person accounts of harvard students involved in a trial which questioned the actual creator of Facebook. Zuckerburg was accused of stealing the ideas from two Harvard elite brothers who had been working on a social networking site idea for years. All they needed was someone to write the code. After telling Zuckerburg their idea, they never saw him again. Not until the trials began at least. Mark never emailed them back, never took their calls, he virtually avoided them in the most obvious way. He started writing the code however. This is how the originality of his ideas were questioned in the trials. However, Mark would argue the idea they had in mind was not the Facebook of today, or even the very first prototype of the site Mark wrote the code for. 'The Accidental Billionaires' is a true story, and a very interesting and dramatic one at that.

Ben Mezrich, the author of 'The Accidental Billionaires' writes in a way that can only be described as cinematic, which may be why the book is now a major motion picture up for numerous academy awards. The way he writes make me feel like I'm there, at Harvard. Likely something never to actually happen...