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Report: Facebook's Zuckerberg has the blues over upcoming film portrayal
Mark Zuckerberg wants people to know that he's not a selfish and insecure jerk -- which is how he'll be portrayed in the upcoming movie about the founding of Facebook, The Social Network -- according to The New Yorker's new must-read profile of Facebook's normally publicity-shy co-founder.
"I think a lot people will look at that stuff, you know, when I was 19, and say, 'Oh, well, he was like that ... He must still be like that, right?' " Zuckerberg told writer Jose Antonio Vargas.
But the article doesn't provide much evidence to support Zuckerberg's point that he has matured a great deal over the last few years as he has become one of the most powerful people in media.
Vargas says that Zuckerberg "sometimes talks like an Instant Message -- brusque, flat as a dial tone -- and he can come off as flip and condescending, as if he always knew something that you didn't."
Zuckerberg says he doesn't plan to see the drama written by Aaron Sorkin, who created the TV hit The West Wing. When Vargas pressed Zuckerberg to discuss how it might affect his public image "he responded coolly: 'I know the real story'," according to the article.
Sorkin, for his part, tells Vargas that the movie "is not meant as an attack" on Zuckerberg even though he "spends the first one hour and fifty-five minutes as an antihero and the last five minutes as a tragic hero."
Still, Zuckerberg isn't happy: He recently removed The West Wing from the list of his favorite TV shows on his Facebook page, the article says.
Another interesting tid-bit: Blue is the dominant color on Facebook because Zuckerman is red-green color-blind.
By David Lieberman
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