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"Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil"

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The funniest thing here is the accidental self-own: a line that reads like an exasperated user ranting at Facebook, only to be attributed to Mark Zuckerberg himself. That mismatch is the engine. It smuggles in a fantasy lots of people have had during a bad algorithm day: even the guy in charge must sometimes want to throw his phone into the ocean. Whether or not Zuckerberg ever said it, the quote works because it imagines the founder as just another captive of the machine he built.

“Bloody Facebook” is blunt, almost quaintly British profanity, the language of annoyance rather than outrage. It’s not “harm” or “democracy” or “privacy”; it’s friction. That matters. The subtext is that Facebook’s cultural dominance isn’t maintained by love, but by habit, irritation, and resignation. You don’t stay because it’s good; you stay because leaving is a hassle.

The Social Network reference is a neat bit of meta-commentary: enjoying a film that mythologizes (and villain-casts) your origin story, then turning around and calling “Mark Zuckerberg” the devil. It’s an acknowledgment that the public narrative has escaped the subject. “Zuckerberg” becomes a character, a symbol for tech arrogance and social damage, separate from the human being. The devil line is intentionally overwrought, which is why it lands: it mirrors the internet’s tendency to moralize product design into cosmic evil.

Contextually, it’s post-2010 internet culture in miniature: platforms as everyday infrastructure, founders as cartoon antagonists, and criticism delivered through jokes because jokes travel faster than policy.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Zuckerberg, Mark. (2026, January 18). Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/bloody-facebook-and-to-think-id-enjoyed-the-184055/

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Zuckerberg, Mark. "Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/bloody-facebook-and-to-think-id-enjoyed-the-184055/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/bloody-facebook-and-to-think-id-enjoyed-the-184055/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Mark Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is a Businessman from USA.

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