‘It was weird, man’: Zuckerberg took Facebook employees to see ‘The Social Network’ when it came out

Mark Zuckerberg might not be essentially the most likable determine in Silicon Valley, however we will empathize with him on this: it could really feel actually bizarre if somebody made a film about your life.

On YouTubers Colin and Samir’s podcast, Zuckerberg spoke concerning the one and solely time he noticed “The Social Community.”

“It was bizarre, man,” he stated. “They obtained all these very particular particulars of what I used to be sporting, or these particular issues right, however then the entire narrative arc round my motivations and all these items have been like, fully incorrect.”

The fifteen-year-old film solely got here up in dialog as a result of Zuckerberg was sporting a t-shirt that Jesse Eisenberg wore when portraying the younger founder on display — Zuckerberg later purchased the t-shirt at an public sale. Though Zuckerberg was identified for sporting plain gray t-shirts, he’s since paid a lot more attention to his style, so it’s doubtless that his t-shirt selection was not an accident.

Zuckerberg stated that he knew his workers can be curious to see it anyway, so he organized for the corporate to go watch it collectively.

“The entire arc is like, I’m someway motivated by looking for a girlfriend, [but] I used to be relationship Priscilla earlier than I began Fb.”

Maybe this portrayal of Zuckerberg stems from one other infamous web site he created whereas a pupil: Facemash, an app the place college students might vote on which of their classmates was the most popular. Whereas the service was well-liked amongst some college students, it angered others who felt it was a violation of their privateness; he had scraped his classmates’ pupil ID images from non-public servers to make the location.

“It’s an unlucky a part of the web, how folks sort of make up a number of the founding mythology to what they need,” Zuckerberg stated.

He denies the concept Facemash was a precursor to Fb, claiming that after over 20 years, folks nonetheless hyperlink Facemash and Fb as a result of “The Social Community.”

“I used to be only a child,” Zuckerberg stated.