We first posted about the CNBC documentary in October, but tomorrow is the long-awaited debut of the hour-long special report. The network’s Lester Holt talks to some key players who were with Facebook in the beginning, along with some users whose lives were changed forever by the social networking site (and not always for the better).
If you can’t wait for tomorrow, there are several preview clips worth checking out. Click here for a sneak peak showing Mark Zuckerberg as a sophomore at Harvard calling Facebook an ‘online directory’.
In this clip, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes talks about how The Social Network was more fiction than fact.
Here, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra discuss how they felt one day sitting in their dorm rooms when they found out Zuckerberg launched the site without them. The documentary goes on to talk about the legal battle between Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss brothers, which resulted in a million dollar court settlement.
Finally, social-media marketer Alana Joy shows how difficult it was to remove her Facebook account—she said it required deleting every photo one-by-one.
A preview of the show called, “The Facebook Obsession” is available on CNBC’s Facebook page.
The documentary promises to be more than fluff, but we’ll have to wait and see how much the show actually delivers. After all, Holt describes the social network’s business model as still selling user-supplied data to advertisers.
The show will air Thursday, January 6th at 9 pm EST. Will you be tuning in?
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