Posted on 08/05/2017 1:19:11 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The movie Zuckerberg is a highly credible character, a computer genius located somewhere on the autistic spectrum with minimal to non-existent social skills. But that’s not what the man is really like. In real life, Zuckerberg was studying for a degree with a double concentration in computer science and – this is the part people tend to forget – psychology. People on the spectrum have a limited sense of how other people’s minds work; autists, it has been said, lack a ‘theory of mind’. Zuckerberg, not so much. He is very well aware of how people’s minds work and in particular of the social dynamics of popularity and status.
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Good read.
All about an NSA arm called Facebook.
WOW..!
Chilling and eye-opening.
I doubt many will get all the way through that, but I found it gripping.
OUTSTANDING post..!
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