Journal Entry 1 by freelunch from Cairns, Queensland Australia on Saturday, May 21, 2011

Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, comptetitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world.

With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, lawyers. 

Journal Entry 2 by freelunch at Cairns, Queensland Australia on Tuesday, November 01, 2011

released via VBB Oz to livrecache 

Journal Entry 3 by livrecache at Hobart, Tasmania Australia on Monday, November 14, 2011

Thank you very much for this book.
It arrived last week, so this is a belated entry, but we've been away for ten days.
I'm looking forward to reading it, as I've seen Social Network.
Thank you, Andrew. 

Journal Entry 4 by livrecache at Hobart, Tasmania Australia on Monday, November 21, 2011

I read this sproradically over a few days. Having seen the film some months ago, I visualised the characters to all look like the actors. The film and the book seem to be fairly faithful to one another. I am now an authority on Mark Zuckerberg. Not. I doubt anyone is.
It seemed to be a well-researched bio, by a well-credentialled journalist. And very easy to read: always a bonus. I don't need challenges right now.
Seriously, I found it very interesting, even if it's made me hold back from using Facebook again (a bit), for no good reason except for principles.
I shall probably offer it back to the Oz VBB.