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Facebook: The Inside Story of Mark Zuckerberg and the Social Network's Fight for Survival | Steven Levy
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"In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing 'fake news' accounts, the handling of its users' personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. Based on years of exclusive reporting and interviews with Facebook's key executives and employees, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Steven Levy's sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences"--
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MariaW
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I could not login to Litsy for almost 3 days now due to the problems with Facebook. I just had to change a perfectly correct email address to the same email address just because Facebook has problems with other apps. I think I will change all my Facebook logins to other apps now. 🙈

Jari-chan Same here... 🫤 1y
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TimSpalding
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Levy is losing steam at the end. His bizarre framing of PHP vs. native development had me gasping—THIS is the guy who wrote “Hackers“? Now he's grinding his gears on a facile debate about free speech and censorship. Damn, I wish I could read this with someone with my level of engagement with these issues!

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TimSpalding
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Fascinating account. Also, as someone who started a social site in August 2005, and followed products and news closely, it's weirdly nostalgic.

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TimSpalding
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Reading Levy's Facebook book, which includes a lot of Zuckerberg biography, it occurs to me that biography hasn't progressed much intellectually since antiquity. We do not see the young Alexander or Zuckerberg except as a crude mirror of the adult one. Success is assumed, and the effects of success on the progress of an individual are ignored. Even lay history couldn't get away with this today, but it's standard in biography.

DGRachel That‘s interesting and something I never really noticed, but admittedly I don‘t read a lot of biographies. 4y
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