Michelle's AHA

After reading Amanda's post below and seeing The Social Network yesterday, I also question Zuckerberg's motivation for not going into "damage-control" for his public image. The movie makes him look like a world-class jerk. As his character explains in the movie, part of his motivation in creating Facebook was to rehabilitate his image after the Facemash debacle. The movie also portrays Zuckerberg as someone who cares so much about acceptance that he would do almost anything to be invited into one of the Final Clubs at Harvard. He is obviously not the type of thick-skinned person who wouldn't let something like this movie bother him, so my "aha!" is that he probably is engaged in damage-control, just not in the typical celebrity way. Most celebs would issue a statement, hold a press conference, or schedule some interviews to set the record straight. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg has remained fairly quiet about the movie and focused the attention on his $100 million donation to the Newark public school system. That is not to say that his donation was intended to be a distraction, but his timing is convenient.