Much has been written about the dramatic liberties screenwriter Aaron Sorkin took with the story of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, who launched his now-multibillion-dollar business while still a Harvard undergraduate.
While Mr. Sorkin chose to create what he calls a “metaphor,” depicting the young tech whiz as a loner and a social nerd, the truth is quite different. Far from being painfully dumped, Mr. Zuckerberg is still with the same longtime girlfriend. More important, he was not motivated to create Facebook from a sense of alienation and isolation, but as an expression of his own desire to see the world connected, say both Zuckerberg and those who have known him for a long time.
Facebook now has more than 600 million global members and counting, and Zuckerberg himself, now the nation’s youngest billionaire and Time magazine's Person of the Year, has pledged to give away half his wealth during his lifetime.
