The irony of David Fincher’s brilliant The Social Network is that a great tool for facilitating human interaction was created by a largely friendless dweeb with the social skills of a rock. The very first scene of the movie, an awkward bar date between future Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and a college lady friend (Rooney Mara), ends with the cute co-ed explaining that girls don’t like him not because he’s a smart nerd, but because he’s a complete asshole. Ouch.
This article appears in Sep 23-29, 2010.