Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology

Re:Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psycho... by ambivalence on Thursday November 09, 2017 @12:45PM (#15664292)

> Not sure how accurate it is, but the way Facebook's founding ideas are portrayed in The Social Network definitely screams "exploiting human psychology".

It's fiction. Yes, inspired by a true story but fiction nonetheless.

You wouldn't base your knowledge about Nikola Tesla on "The Prestige", would you?

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Re:Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psycho... by rdiddly on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:10PM (#15664475)

I'm gonna say no, they wouldn't, nor would they base their knowledge about Facebook on The Social Network, and to support this claim I cite the first 5 words: "Not sure how accurate it is."

I guess you're saying "don't trust movies" and/or "Facebook would never exploit human psychology, that's a made-up fiction." Har har, good one.

Regardless, "fiction inspired by a true story" would presumably have some true elements and some not-true elements. If they were all not-true elements, it would be completely made-up, literally 100% fiction (not based on or inspired by a true story), and anyway I don't think there's any such thing as 100% fiction, no matter how hard people try. Every fiction owes something to the reality it was concocted in.

Therefore the problem becomes knowing which elements are true (facts) and which are not-true (fiction).

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