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Does anyone think this will have a negative impact on Facebook's reputation or slow the rampant user growth? I'm inclined to believe this is going to have a hu

Does anyone think this will have a negative impact on Facebook's reputation or slow the rampant user growth? I'm inclined to believe this is going to have a huge impact on the masses and their perception of Facebook.

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rblion 16y ago
it will make zuckerberg look like fuckerberg to most people. he already embodies the brand of FB, superficial and materialistic. Fakebook should have been the title of the movie.
jgilliam 16y ago
I'd bet it will accelerate it, if it's even possible to accelerate it further.
derwiki 16y ago
Is Facebook funding this film at all?
- kylelibra 16y ago
  Facebook is not funding this film. Furthermore, it is against Facebook's Usage Terms for this film to be promoted through paid advertisements on Facebook. There is a quote from the studio somewhere talking about it. He basically says that any advertisements that are about Facebook the company have to be approved by Facebook. He said once the studio found that out they didn't even bother submitting advertisements.
todayiamme 16y ago
Unfortunately, it won't. I remember listening to an interview with Michael Douglas one night(I have insomnia), where he remarked that people actually came up to him and said that they wanted to be Gordon Gekko. This will in fact add to Zuckerberg's appeal and people will use Facebook to tell other people on Facebook how cool the guy who made Facebook actually is. Other than them the others simply won't care and will go right back to playing one of those Zynga games. The only thing that will kill Facebook is another fad, which gets embraced by the "cool" brigade.
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JesseAldridge 16y ago
Probably about the same impact Pirates of Silicon Valley had on Bill Gates. Pretty much nil. Economics overrides everything else.
- enjo 16y ago
  I always thought Pirates was much more of an indictment of Steve Jobs... among folks that I know who actually saw the movie, they certainly walked away with a lower opinion of the man.
  - todayiamme 16y ago
    Even I did. However, later I realized that it is quite easy to judge him but so hard to understand him. You really need to know bottomless despair to see where he came from. Think of this you are a teenager with no contact with your bio parents, struggling to make sense of who you are, and you cannot get rid of the nagging feeling that you have no future and then you hit the big time. No The Big Time. Would that not go to your head and exaggerate your flaws? He is just human being with limited resources to cope with what life thrust upon him. I don't worship him anymore, but I won't judge him either.

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rblion 16y ago

it will make zuckerberg look like fuckerberg to most people. he already embodies the brand of FB, superficial and materialistic. Fakebook should have been the title of the movie.

jgilliam 16y ago

I'd bet it will accelerate it, if it's even possible to accelerate it further.

derwiki 16y ago

Is Facebook funding this film at all?

kylelibra 16y ago
Facebook is not funding this film. Furthermore, it is against Facebook's Usage Terms for this film to be promoted through paid advertisements on Facebook. There is a quote from the studio somewhere talking about it. He basically says that any advertisements that are about Facebook the company have to be approved by Facebook. He said once the studio found that out they didn't even bother submitting advertisements.

todayiamme 16y ago

Unfortunately, it won't. I remember listening to an interview with Michael Douglas one night(I have insomnia), where he remarked that people actually came up to him and said that they wanted to be Gordon Gekko. This will in fact add to Zuckerberg's appeal and people will use Facebook to tell other people on Facebook how cool the guy who made Facebook actually is. Other than them the others simply won't care and will go right back to playing one of those Zynga games. The only thing that will kill Facebook is another fad, which gets embraced by the "cool" brigade.

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JesseAldridge 16y ago

Probably about the same impact Pirates of Silicon Valley had on Bill Gates. Pretty much nil. Economics overrides everything else.

enjo 16y ago
I always thought Pirates was much more of an indictment of Steve Jobs... among folks that I know who actually saw the movie, they certainly walked away with a lower opinion of the man.
- todayiamme 16y ago
  Even I did. However, later I realized that it is quite easy to judge him but so hard to understand him. You really need to know bottomless despair to see where he came from. Think of this you are a teenager with no contact with your bio parents, struggling to make sense of who you are, and you cannot get rid of the nagging feeling that you have no future and then you hit the big time. No The Big Time. Would that not go to your head and exaggerate your flaws? He is just human being with limited resources to cope with what life thrust upon him. I don't worship him anymore, but I won't judge him either.