Full disclosure: I've been on Facebook for approaching 4 years, log on almost daily and don't get freaked out when random strangers want to tag or poke me. If this were a movie, it would no doubt be 'inspired by a true story'.Īll that said, this is a fascinating read. That's what artistic license is all about, after all. There is simply no way of knowing how much of the story is the truth, and how much has been fabricated or exaggerated. That's why I'm calling it faction, while the publishers might prefer non-fiction. He has, however, talked to many of the key players, and from doing so has pieced together a story of what might or might not have happened. He wasn't there at the same time as them and, prior to writing this book, had never met the boys. He is a Harvard grad, but that's the only link between him and the characters in the book, also students at the Ivy League institution. And, yet, that's exactly the claim you find on the cover of this book, a work of faction that claims to tell the inside story of the founding of Facebook.īen Mezrich is not, and never has been, associated with the social networking site. But, with a website? And a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely not. is the sort you'd generally associate with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. Summary: The inside story of the biggest thing in social networking sites, this is a sometimes bitter but mostly absorbing account as told by various people who, perhaps crucially, are no longer involved with Facebook.Īs subtitles go, Sex, Money, Betrayal.
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