MOVIE ON STORM: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook as endless fashion trend

The only permanent thing in this world is change. And I believe this is what Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is all about.

My journalism mentor and famous food blogger Ms. Josephine Bonsol kept pushing me to watch The Social Network because she said I could learn a thing or two from the youngest billionaire on recent earth: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. But of course, I learned more.

I must say I got a bit of culture shock with all the characters' speed in talking, and I had to watch it in the middle of the night (so as to achieve dead silence) and glue my ears to the speaker just to catch up with what they were saying. All that the Facebook founder and his colleagues had to say were all inspirational and informative after all.

FACEBOOK EVOLUTION LIKE FASHION

I believe this is the greatest lesson I was able to relate with and reflect on. Mark was right: one thing cannot stay or look or be the same forever, or else the rest of the world will eventually lose interest on you, or on your work. That's why the face of Facebook continues to evolve--just like fashion.

This has also answered my curiosity on why the boys in my section never get tired of playing DOTA or game cards. I then remembered I heard one of them said, "The game always evolves into something new." That should be the style.

This lesson on constant change also slapped me hard with regards to my amateur writing, as my mentor soon noticed I "played safe" in my own single style of writing articles that I was able to forget the basic principle of creative journalism: versatility.

MAKING A FEW ENEMIES

And yes, with a little help from his friends

I guess it is inevitable to encounter risks when it comes to crafting a better change for the world, or in any work for that matter. But then Mark Zuckerberg posed determination and focused on what he simply wants to achieve: to connect people. He did it, and so should we, whatever hardships it may take .

MAKING THE CHANGE HAPPEN

Even though we all know Mark's labor to make Facebook exist rooted from his broken relationship with his girlfriend, I believe his purpose evolved into something far better for a real change. He showed us that young people (and undergrads) like him can make something new and make it happen. This calls not for us to indulge ourselves in Facebook, but for us to be inspired enough that we can discover a new-born, original idea at a young age, and that it is not impossible for us to be the next youngest billionaire.