The Social Network

(Spoiler alert: if you haven't watched the movie and intended to, don't read this blog now)

Last night I watched The Social Network movie and I was impressed how an asshole Mark Zuckerberg is and how he basically stole an idea from a couple of his Harvard coleagues and then back stabbed the co-founder of his website.

It is amazing how succesful a product is when it touches a human psychology. Human beings are social creatures and what Mark has created satisfys this instict.

I never rely on movies with true stories as a source of information so I did little digging on the accuracy of the movie and here is what I found on wikipedia:

Disputed accuracy

Author Jeff Jarvis, of the forthcoming book Public Parts, interviewed Zuckerberg and believes Sorkin has made too much of the story up. He states, "That's what the internet is accused of doing, making stuff up, not caring about the facts."^[62]
According to David Kirkpatrick, former technology editor at Fortune magazine and author of The Facebook Effect:The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, (2011),^[63] "the film is only "40% true. . . he is not snide and sarcastic in a cruel way, the way Zuckerberg is played in the movie." He says that "a lot of the factual incidents are accurate, but many are distorted and the overall impression is false," and concludes that primarily "his motivations were to try and come up with a new way to share information on the internet."^[62]
Although the film portrays Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook in order to elevate his stature after not getting into any of the elite final clubs at Harvard, Zuckerberg himself said he had no interest in joining the final clubs.^[1] Kirkpatrick agrees that the impression implied by the film is "false."^[62]
Karel Baloun, a former senior engineer at Facebook, notes that the "image of Zuckerberg as a socially inept nerd is overstated . . .It is fiction. . ." He likewise dismisses the film's assertion that he "would deliberately betray a friend."^[62]

So the fact that Mark has an asshole type persona is disputed.

When I knew that Mark is a jew, I instantly linked the color theme of facebook with the israeli flag which is the white and blue. The same blue in the falg.

Watch the movie, it's worth it.