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🗓️ 26 October 2012

⏱️ 50 minutes

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An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a "Like." On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:06.1	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. If you're listening to the show on your radio, odds are you reside in the United States, population 314 million.
0:15.1	But odds are increasing. You also live in another country, a much larger one.
0:20.8	The third largest country on the planet after China and India. You also live in another country, a much larger one.
0:24.9	The third largest country on the planet after China and India.
0:28.1	That's Rebecca McKinnon in her book, Consent of the Network.
0:32.2	She labels this burgeoning world power, Facebookistan.
0:39.4	FaceBookistan, it's run by a sovereign who believes himself to be benevolent. She means Mark Zuckerberg,
0:45.3	who founded it in 2004. But we're not going to spend much time on history. Maybe you saw the movie The Social Network? This is what drives life in college. Are you having sex or aren't you? It's why
0:49.8	people take certain classes and sit where they sit and do what they do when at some center, you know,
0:55.0	that's what the Facebook is going to be about. People are going to log on because after all the
0:58.5	cake and watermelon there's a chance they're actually going to get laid. Meet a girl.
1:02.0	It portrays Zuckerberg as a lonely nerd whose billion-dollar brainchild was the result of displacement,
1:09.0	a compensation for loneliness, our ultimate revenge fantasy.
1:13.8	The reality for people who know me is I've actually been dating the same girl since before I started Facebook, so obviously that's not a part of it.
1:18.9	Mark Zuckerberg.
1:19.8	They just can't wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things.
1:25.4	On Tuesday, in a reversal of the usual, Facebook announced that its revenues exceeded forecasts.
1:32.1	And earlier this month, the site announced that it had reached one billion accounts.
1:37.1	This week, in a reversal of our own, we're taking a breather from the election to update and replay our special hour on the house that Mark built.
1:45.9	This place where people share photos, links, and passions, advocate, organize, network,
1:52.6	lurk, confide, sell, and spy.
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