Facebook Employees Start Weighing in on The Social Network -- on Facebook
At least some of The Social Network's $23 million weekend haul came from the Facebook company, which bought out two theaters this weekend to take its employees to see the film. "To celebrate a period of intense activity at Facebook, we decided to go to the movies," a spokesman told the NY Times. "We thought this particular movie might be amusing." Cheeky statements aside, though, what did the employees really think?
I visited the profiles of a very long list of Facebook employees searching for status updates about the company outing. Ironically, it turns out that Facebook employees value their privacy -- very few even made their walls available to the public, and not many of those who did posted about the film. That said, a few comments that did mention it were actually positive. Here's what was posted publicly:
· "Justin Bishop in response to a friend: Yes we were wearing facebook tshirts. And yes I did like it. ;o)"
· Ezra Callahan: "Saw the social network. Entertaining even if a little off from reality. Glad I wasn't in it though."
· In response to a friend asking if he had a character in the movie, Robert Johnson: "The sorority girl with the cocaine was loosely based on me."
· Cameron Marlow: "This is the most meta experience of my work life."
· Four employees posted links to this article which takes the film to task for its bias and factual omissions.
If you can't beat 'em...
Comments
Loved it! Be careful who you piss off, they just might use you in anger to become a very wealthy.
Got excited about the comment over the movie I forgot to finish the statement. "a very wealthy person"
But what did they think of Case 39?