Monday night, the Majestic Theater held a sneak preview of "The Social Network," a film about the creation of Facebook.com. The movie describes the variety of contributions necessary for the construction of the social networking Web site.

Filmmaker David Fincher refuses to establish a single view point throughout the film resulting in a powerful battle between men vying for a small (or large) piece of credit for the discovery.

In the six years since its inception, Facebook has expanded from an outlet for Harvard University students to view each other’s pictures to the social and cultural invention that will define our generation. With over 500 million current users, Facebook revolutionized social interaction, digital media consumption and how advertisers reach their audiences.

Students and the plethora of demographics that soon joined, instantly and willingly forfeited their right to privacy in exchange for the chance to watch their acquaintances’ lives. In doing so, Facebook has denigrated reality by making the comments of others on the virtual representation of life’s events more valuable than their original form.

Regardless of the quality of the film, or if there is any truth in the drama between the key characters, this movie bears witness to the entity that transformed life for many into status sound bites and created a new realm of social predicaments.

For instance, with the world able to watch one’s life play out in a virtual form, relationship dynamics, specifically how and when a relationship status is updated, becomes the defining moment within a young couple’s life.

No longer is "the talk" itself about whether or not a couple will go steady the moment in which that relationship becomes solidified; it is the second that the drop down option of "single" turns to "in a relationship" is clicked and simultaneously broadcast to an entire social network. Knowing that everyone they know is watching, users construct their virtual identities for public consumption.

"The Social Network" provides a framework for how life itself has been accelerated in less than a decade and leaves out the question of what the impact of this revolution will be. While users throughout the world continue to log into their accounts daily, if and how the exploitation of the private information they so willingly relinquish has yet to be ascertained.

The movie opens nationwide on Friday, Oct. 1.