“People are more voyeuristic than what I would have thought.”
"The true story of two best friends- geeky outsiders at a prestigious Ivy League University- who wanted nothing more than to get into one of the elite fraternities on campus, so they'd have an easier time getting laid."
Thus poetically begins Ben Mezrich's proposal about creating Facebook with Mark "I Just Want to Help" Zuckerberg as "dorky," fencing-loving, Adidas shower shoes-wearing Harvard undergrads.
Gawker warns,
The book may not be the most rigorously factual account, as Mezrich's Bringing Down The House... was debunked by the Boston Globe as "not a work of 'nonfiction' in any meaningful sense of the word."
Rolling Stone's recent profile of Zuckerberg is a bit more specific about his motivations. Facebook began as so many other brilliant ideas do, with drinking alone on a Tuesday night (ah, college). Recently dumped and feeling bitter, Zuckerberg wrote on his blog, "Jessica A— is a bitch." (Does anyone know who Jessica A. is?) That night, he created Face Mash, a site for students to compare their classmates' pictures with those of farm animals and rank them in terms of attractiveness. Charming! Read the rest of this entry »
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