The Social Network juggernaut proved itself at the box office, taking the top spot and generating $23 million its opening weekend. With wider exposure, though, came a mushrooming backlash for the Facebook movie, led by two of its journalist friends.

Young lovelorn folks out there, listen here. This video will show you expressing yourself from time to time in more than 140 characters can be beneficial to the relationships in your life. Or just spend more time on Facebook. Whatever.

Facebook's revenue has grown astronomically in the last couple years. This is largely attributable to the business savvy of its superstar chief operating officer, ex-Googler Sheryl Sandberg. But don't expect her to give a shit about user privacy.

Facebook certainly is sending mixed signals about The Social Network! On the one hand, its official position is that the movie is boob-and-coke-filled "fiction". On the other, Facebook took their Palo Alto employees to see the film last night.

Not content with doling out $100 million to help Newark schools, Mark Zuckerberg took the next logical step to counteract The Social Network's portrayal of him as a scheming nerd-villain: hiring Cirque du Soleil for a massive PR industry party.

Excited to see The Social Network this weekend? This Taiwanese CGI summary breaks down the Facebook story: It's got bathroom stall sex, and explores the beef between Mark Zuckerberg and the "row-boating wasps" he allegedly stole the Facebook idea from.

It would seem Mark Zuckerberg still hates his iPhone reception: The CEO joined a dis session convened by fellow Facebook executives who find service for the Apple smartphone "so f'ing annoying."

Mark Zuckerberg has received a very serious, very real business overture from rapper Snoop Dogg, who tweeted that he'd like to buy a professional sports team with the Facebook co-founder. Think hard on this, Mark. Snoop is pretty convincing.

The writer of The Social Network discussed his new movie and Facebook on The View today. Sorkin believes "socializing on the internet is what reality TV is to reality" and somewhat-hypocritically that everyone should see his movie this weekend.

He mediates our most intimate relationships. His story will soon dominate movie theaters. And his attitude toward privacy can be downright terrifying. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the ultimate in spooky this Halloween — hence this free cut-out mask.

Facebook's first venture investor says The Social Network could encourage college students into a life of dropout web hacking much as the 1987 picture Wall Street encouraged them into investment banking.

CBS just signed its second TV deal based on a Twitter account, and inked Ashton Kutcher to produce. Hollywood now officially has a monster crush on movies and TV serials about websites.

Your Facebook and Twitter accounts scare federal law enforcement. So does your Skype setup and your BlackBerry. If it's hard to tap, the feds fear it, which is why the Obama administration is calling for a bunch of new backdoors.

"I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself," says Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. Fun fact: Jesse's cousin works at Facebook HQ.

Confused about why Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave $100 million to Newark schools just as an unflattering movie about him was hitting theaters? It's not what you think! Allow tabloid sexpert Andrea Peyser to break it down for you.

It's easy to interpret Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million donation to Newark schools—officially announced the exact day The Social Network opens the New York Film Festival—as a PR move to counter the film's negative portrayal of him.

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The new documentary Catfish, which follows a New York 20-something's strange relationship with online strangers, might seem to be about the cloak of anonymity provided by the Internet. It's not. It's about the new impossibility of being anonymous online.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the devastatingly handsome twins who claim Facebook was their idea, lapse all too easily into self-caricature. Consider their outfits for a screening of The Social Network, which included, says an accompanying journalist, matching man purses.

For the second day running, Facebook's servers stopped responding. What gives? Facebook says they're working on it, again, but does not describe the actual problem. We'd like to blame the endless, deafening Facebook movie chatter, somehow. Update: Back, partly.