An old SNL sketch (Happy Fun Ball) popped into my head when I started writing this. Watch it and you’ll understand the title.
I watched The Social Network last night because my Accounting professor recommended it during a discussion about common stock. It was a good and somewhat creepy movie. At the end, the guy playing Mark Zuckerberg proclaims, “I’m not the bad guy.” I’m not entirely convinced, in part because he’s the leader of the evil empire commonly known as Facebook.
So as I was having this internal debate about whether Mark Zuckerberg is a major asshole, I decided to log onto the admin page here and look at some stuff. It wouldn’t load. Why not? I hadn’t written anything about his shitty behavior in the movie yet, but he decided to hack the network and preemptively shut down my blog anyway. What an asshole.
The biggest clear difference between the fiction of the film based on Facebook and the actual real events is that the film totally invented the girl/relationship that Zuckerberg was supposedly angry at (and later pining for). Throughout most of that time period, and (I understand) continuing through the present day, he has been in a stable long-term relationship.
@Joan: that would make more sense to me.