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If you’re desperate to get a glimpse of JT, or suck up some words of wisdom from Aaron Sorkin, the stars and screen writer of The Social Network will be appearing in the flesh at the Apple Store in Regent Street, London, this Friday from 7pm. Aside from JT and Aaron Sorkin, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield will also be there. The event is free, and will include a talk, Q&A, plus clips from The Social Network, which so far, has been compared to The Godfather and is beating ET in ratings. Seats are first come first served, so best to get there early.

7pm Friday 8 Oct | Apple Store, Regent St, London | Free

The Social Network has opened in the States to great fanfare, pulling in $23m in its first weekend and hitting the number one box office spot. It’s been compared, in bombastic media soundbytes, to Goodfellas and The Godfather (“If Coppola were into computers, this would be The Godfather”), and has racked up ridiculous ratings on sites like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, scoring higher than ET, Taxi Driver, and the original Star Wars movie.

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Start winding down to the weekend now, it’s Friday, which calls for some YouTube diversion. We’ve seen the creepy CGI videos from NMA.tv before, but here’s a corker: The Facebook film, The Social Network, in one minute. Click through to watch Zuckerberg get whipped by the Winklevoss twins…

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The Social Network aka the Facebook movie is getting amazing reviews but despite penning one of the Internet’s great creation myths, West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has revealed he does “get” the Internet. Talking to New York magazine to promote The Social Network, he went on a rather entertaining anti-Internet rant…

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The Social Network, the upcoming Facebook film based on a book by Ben Mezrich, is out next month. In the meantime, its trailer has been given some added info, in interactive additional facts scattered through it. Some if the facts, and titbits, caught us by surprise. Click through for ten things we didn’t know about Facebook

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While Facebook privacy concerns have never been a massive issue for its creator Mark Zuckerberg but a new profile in the New Yorker still reveals more about the man himself than he’s usually let on. So what secrets are lurking behind Mark Zuckerberg’s public Facebook profile. Read on for some interesting trivia including just why the site is blue and a fairly shocking admission from the Facebook founder…

The Facebook movie, The Social Network, will be released with a scene featuring drug taking and bare breasts uncut despite suggestions that the apparently fictional scene could lead to legal issues. The Facebook movie’s producer, Scott Rudin, had previously indicated that it might be cut but the boobs and blow scene will now reportedly make the final cut…

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Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has reportedly taped a guest spot on The Simpsons. Though the social network supremo hasn’t confirmed that he’ll turning yellow, the timing of the season 22 episode, Loan-A-Lisa, is a perfect PR opportunity. It’s set to air in October just as the Facebook movie, The Social Network hits screens.

We reckon the appearance makes the Facebook supremo the third real life billionaire to feature in The Simpsons but sadly Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (as Steve Mobs) didn’t voice their characters. Read on for spoilers about the Facebook boss’s episode…

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