FACEBOOK AND MARK ZUCKERBERG...

For those of us who have been trained to spot a combination of features that frequently spell
Asperger's enjoy the TV show, The Big Bang Theory.  Sheldon is a stereotypical example of the brilliant, compulsive, socially inept person who lacks typical emotional responses to cues others read differently.

Today I saw the movie The Social Network.  I was told the movie is not true to the actual Facebook and its inception and inventors.  However, Hollywood portrayed Mark Zuckerberg as classic Asperger's..

The difficulty in understanding and acknowledging autism, primarily high functioning autism or Asperger�s Syndrome, by the medical, psychological, and psychiatric community, can lead to misdiagnosis and even failure to provide the services needed for students (Autism Today, 2007).

In 2007, Michelle Fattig wrote  "

People with Asperger's Syndrome are often described, as having social skills deficits, reluctance to listen, difficulty understanding social give and take, and other core characteristics, is typically quite misunderstood and/or misdiagnosed in our country today.

Wikipedia describes Facebook and some history.  For some direct follow-up from Mark Zuckerberg, the 26 year old youngest billionaire, click here.

Regardless of how Mr. Zuckerberg may be clinically diagnosed, he is clearly one of those rare, brilliant, creative people who has proven he has carefully thought out a concept of social networking that no others had thought to shape and develop as he did.  By the way, none of the write-ups of Zuckerberg contain anything about Sean Parker (Napster) in facilitating the birth through adolescence of Facebook as pictured in the movie nor did Zuckerberg comment on him in anything available to me to read.

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FACEBOOK IS INSTITUTING A NEW PRIVACY CONTROL

The Washington Post unveiled Google's plans to change the way Facebook has currently been handling what is now their 350,000,000 users. "Facebook is also going to remove regional networks entirely, largely because some of those networks (like China) consist of millions of users, which makes them useless from a privacy standpoint." For the entirety of this article, click here.

From Wikipedia: "Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.[5] The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide.[6]

Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria,[7] China[8], Vietnam[9], and Iran.[10] It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.[11] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.[12]

A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[13]"

For those of us with a little less energy to add yet another platform of communication, I (for one) await the new information on how to handle the new and improved Facebook which will reach us momentarily.