Has 'The Social Network' helped or hurt Facebook? Everyone's
talking about the hit film, but what does the movie mean for its
subject? Mark Zuckerberg may be depicted as a ruthless nerd in
'The Social Network,' but Facebook fans stand by his product.
hen The Social Network hit theaters, many critics speculated the
film would be a "PR nightmare" for Facebook, with its founders
coming off as greedy, misogynistic nerds. CEO Mark Zuckerberg
donated $100 million to Newark schools a week before the film
opened, and skeptics wondered whether he was just trying to
counter a coming wave of bad press. But with the movie about the
social-networking website's origins topping the box office two
weekends in a row, and Oscar buzz already surfacing, a new study
suggests The Social Network has been surprisingly kind to the
Facebook brand. (Watch a Bloomberg discussion with the brothers
suing Facebook.) Here's a quick guide to the findings:  What did
the study find? In the weeks surrounding the film's realease,
young people a