If you believe you studied 'The Social Network' you may well be questioning how correct Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg is. Also, Is Mark autistic?
A slew of recent motion pictures and presentations is always rotating on and off Netflix — and among them is The Social Network. The biographical drama is more well timed than ever, appearing readers how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg "got" the theory for the social networking platform, who he screwed over in the process, and what motivated him. Unsurprisingly, The Social Network, directed by way of David Fincher and written through Aaron Sorkin, paints Mark beautiful darn negatively.
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Not simplest is Mark status-obsessed, misogynistic (one of his first internet initiatives used to be something known as "Facemash," a kind of "hot or not" tool, which lets other people rate if one college lady is warmer than the other,) but viewers might realize that he seems to have a lack of regard for a way other people really feel and does not actually take in social cues. This habits is no longer only portrayed by means of Jesse Eisenberg (who performs Mark in The Social Network,) but the real Mark himself.
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Some wonder whether Mark Zuckerberg is autistic.
It hasn't been showed if Mark has autism (or is on the spectrum,) however it's no doubt imaginable. Those who are at the autism spectrum might show difficulties interacting in social scenarios, and there are varying symptoms and levels. One of the preferred stereotypes is an individual with tremendous top IQ but who is not able to know social cues or modify to social scenarios. Watching Mark's mannerisms in actual existence as well as Jesse's in The Social Network, one would possibly think the Facebook CEO is autistic — but is that in point of fact the case?
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We'll never know until Mark himself addresses it, and we are not docs. But we did do some digging to see what former Facebook staff needed to say about their interactions with Mark.
In a Quora publish titled, "Is Mark Zuckerberg hard to work with?" former Facebook employee Yishan Wong answers, "He does have a touch of Asperger's [one of the autism spectrum disorders]; in my experience this is primarily manifested in that he does not provide much active feedback or confirmation that he is listening to you."
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A web page known as Autism Support Network additionally seems to agree that Mark has some form of autism. According to ASN, "The founder of Facebook has a desperate deficit when it comes to human interaction. It quickly becomes clear that the character has something on the autistic spectrum, most likely Aspergers syndrome."
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While that remark is not made by means of a health care provider, one medical professional did write about Mark on Psychology Today, pointing out, "It seemed perfectly clear to me that when I saw the movie that Zuckerberg, again, as portrayed, was a classic case of Asperger's."
Is Erica Albright actual or used to be Mark dating Priscilla Chan in Harvard?
According to Mark, Erica Alright isn't real. He said, "The whole framing of the movie is I'm with this girl (who doesn't exist in real life)." The Social Network's first scene is with Erica and Mark sitting at a pub. As they're speaking, it becomes clear that he has no regard for her and doesn't appear to take into account that what he is telling her is extremely rude. She breaks up with him and we could him know that he would possibly suppose women don't like him as a result of he's a nerd, however it's really as a result of he's an a--hole.
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The film then presentations Mark mainly creating Facebook to get back at her and to look essential to people. The thing is, there is a blog by means of anyone named Erica Albright who claims she was Mark's girlfriend in class. We did more digging and found that instead of writing "Erica Albright is a b*tch" on Mark's Livejournal, he if truth be told wrote "Jessica Alona is a b*tch," and The Social Network creators changed the identify to Erica. (So, chances are, that Erica Albright web page is pretend.)
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Who's Jessica Alona? Possibly she was once actually Mark's ex-girlfriend. There's a web page known as jessicaalona.com which claims Jessica Alona is not only real, however that Mark's authentic Facebook brand was supposedly a secret homage to her. Oh, and to make issues much more complicated, Jessica Alona is an alias for Jade Angela. Was Jade Angela actual? Did she date Mark? Again, we don't know the truth here, but we do know that Mark definitely wrote those things in his Livejournal.
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As for Priscilla Chan: The couple has at all times maintained that the two met standing in line at a frat celebration and they started courting sooner than Mark got to work on Facebook right through his sophomore 12 months at Harvard. However, some state that Priscilla and Mark didn't actually start dating until a year later, when she was working for him.
So. Much. Drama. Then once more, what else can you be expecting from the co-creator of the largest social networking/media platforms in the sector?
If you didn't catch it again when it first came out, The Social Network is now streaming on Netflix.
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