How Should Facebook Respond To The Social Network Movie?
As you probably know by now, there’s a movie coming out this fall, called Social Network, which is sorta, kinda, maybe an extremely fictionalized version of the story behind Facebook. It was based on a book by Ben Mezrich, which was already a fictionalized account of the founding of Facebook — based on notes from a disgruntled co-founder, with Mezrich taking significant creative license to fill in lots of blanks. Then, famed writer Aaron Sorkin wrote the script, passing it through a second fictionalized filter. And, not surprisingly, the folks at Facebook are not at all pleased with the movie, which doesn’t exactly portray Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook in a very nice light. Apparently Facebook execs are debating what to do about the movie, and it’s almost surprising that they haven’t tried to take legal action — because that’s almost what you’d expect these days. Of course, they probably realize that doing so will only get the movie more attention (though, it certainly looks like the m
