Author Calls Facebook "Critic Proof"
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Facebook Is "Critic Proof" Says Author
PROVING THEY ARE MORE FOCUSED ON THEMSELVES THAN THE MAN who made oversharing possible, the majority of Facebook's 500 million users stayed home this weekend rather than see a flick about Mark Zuckerberg.
Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network collected a respectable $23 million at the box office but the haul was less than expected.
Despite critics hailing the movie as the latest Citizen Kane and “emblematic of its time and place,” social networkers did not swarm en masse to theaters to ponder Facebook's place in the big picture.
The film portrays Mark Zuckerberg as an unsmiling snake who stole the idea for the social network, and provokes questions about his alleged sociopathic ways. But debate over the allegations promises just more entertainment rather than consequences for the social network.
"I definitely think Facebook is criticproof," Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires on which the movie is based, told the Christian Science Monitor. "It's such a huge part of our lives, it's such a quickly growing company, that any critique falls flat.”
