so i just started watching this movie..i looked it up online to see when it takes place. the 80's, right? but when she first meets her roomie at Harvard, her roomie is like "hey i remember your pic from facebook.." what??!!
did i not hear what she said.. or am i missing something..? i'm confused..
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geez!! why do you have to be so mean about it? it was just a question! @$$
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i know it wasn't around in the f-ing 80's. i'm not that retarded! when i first started watching, i didn't know it took place in the 80's..until i saw the typewriter and the scene where she won the prize or whatever..they said something about 1985....yeah, i wasn't paying much attention. sue me why don't you. that's why i was confused. i know facebook wasn't around back then. i just didn't know what she meant by it. sorry for asking a question that pissed you off so f-ing much!!
sharekittykat, you are not alone...I also noticed the typewriter (they called it a wordprocessor back in the 80s...it was like pre-multifunctional computers)...and the award in 1985...the timeline was messed up...I tried to remember when the internet actually blossomed and that was the mid 90s post windows 95 release....there was a sort of internet but it was mostly dial up modems and sharing files/pics, there weren't any webpages like we know now with all the functionality...
I think you posted a valid question...thanks for posting what I was thinking too, you weren't the only one...
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I noticed that, too. Facebook wasn't even around in 2001 when the movie was made (it was founded in 2004), so maybe she was just talking about a book containing all the photos of incoming students?
sharenow that you mention it, yes, there used to be things like yearbooks and one of those was facebook, pre the internet based facebook we use now...
weird...thanks for posting...
I just watched the movie and when Ruby said that she remembered her from "facebook" I too was thinking... huh? I wondered what that was all about. By the end of the movie, I had forgotten all about it until I checked out this message board to read general comments about the movie, so thank you for posting this question! I agree with the previous reply. It must have something to do with something originating from Harvard, like a book or maybe even something online at the time. The creator of the current Facebook phenonenon was attending Harvard at the time he had created it, so he must've gotten the idea for the name from something already in existent. I even did a Google search and I did come across a link to a page on the university's web site called "Harvard College Facebook."
shareFacebook was indeed created at Harvard, and the earliest version did originate from that. It did not even exist in 1985, though, so it clearly was a little out of place. Not the first time movies have made a mistake. As for the movie being boring, well it is a difficult subject matter, basically a neurotic screwed-up young teen girl, who needs a psychotic medication to fix her problems. That is not a recipe for a happy movie. The movie is about how Prozac solved all of her problems.
shareA Facebook is like a yearbook. Many colleges still make them. It allows the students to sort of get to know each other and connect with one another. It is the reason that the networking website is CALLED Facebook.
It's not an anachronism. We just assume they mean the website by Mark Zuckerburg today.
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As someone previously posted, a Face book is like a year book that some colleges publish in order to let students familiarize themselves with others before the term actually starts. It's not an anachronism of the movie, they didn't make a mistake, yes the facebook we know today was inspired directly from facemash, but where do you think Zuckerberg got the name?
sharedo you think Zuckerberg got the name?
yeah it was a sort of yearbook that ivy league schools would hand out at the beginning of the year to help students get to know eachother and about their focus study. that way you could get to know someone else who was studying the same thing you were and you could help eachother out the first year. some schools have instead started freshman interest groups for their students. if you remember in the movie "social network," if you have seen that, there was a house directory for the school because at harvard they have houses instead of just putting similar students on the same floor of a dorm. well that online directory in the movie where he got those pictures for facemash was basically an online version of the the yearly "annual," or as they called it a 'face book.' it was referred to as a 'face book' because it wasn't exactly a 'yearbook' like the ones that are handed out to highschoolers at the end of the year. it was something given at the beginning of the year to help get people started, not to commemorate memories. also they didn't want to be associating themselves with anything considered 'highschoolish.' Along with your picture, it had your name, what house you were in, area of study (major and minor), house phone number, email, sometimes you could put your favorite quote, and where you were from.there was also a faculty sort of face book directory. so basically they had an online face book directory and harvard had asked a student group to put together a team to create connectU which would basically take the online directory (face book) to another level where students could actually interact with eachother in regards to classwork and stuff. this was basically the force behind something you and i know (well, you possibly know about this if you went to college, most schools now have one) it's called 'blackboard.' it's where you can interact with the other people in your class and your teacher. it's just zuckerberg took it and developed to be more social than just school oriented. so yeah, the name "Facebook" came from the nickname that Harvard students gave to their yearly annual. and this movie sort of proves that the concept of facebook was around a lot longer than the winklevoss twins would like to believe.
i am now off my little soapbox.
I think she said "from the facebook," not "from Facebook..." Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers at the time this movie takes place lol. He didn't get the word "facebook" out of nowhere; some colleges used to have (and some still have) facebooks, or yearbooks complete with student photos. I remember an old episode of "Family Ties" (which of course was made in the 80s) where he picked out his next girlfriend by looking through the freshman facebook.
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Remember also that the film was made in 2001 so I doubt they were referring to the social network. As others said, it was probably a more literal 'face book' that stemmed the name of the site.
Another little geek-spot was the fact that she had a "Tunnel of Love" poster eventhough it was meant to be 1985, and the album came out in 1987.
Enjoyed the film though.
If you saw "The Social Network" you would understand.
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