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23 January 2011updated 16 Jan 2012 12:42pm

Aaron Sorkin: why I’m not on Facebook

The writer of The Social Network on privacy, WikiLeaks and geeks who hate women.

By Helen Lewis

Aaron Sorkin might have written a successful film about Facebook but he’s no fan of it. At a sold-out Q&A at the BFI Southbank, he told the audience that he wasn’t a member. “I put up a Facebook page while I was writing the movie, simply so I could know what it was . . . and then, on the last day of photography, I took it down.”

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