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The face of Facebook opens up to the New Yorker Mark Zuckerberg doesn't readily offer himself up for media interviews. But over the summer the 26-year-old co-founder of Facebook met up with the New Yorker magazine for several interviews, resulting in an exhaustive 6,000-word feature. Going from "Zuck's" adolescence spent building private Instant Messaging (IM) services across his parent's network of computers to the ill-advised college IMs that threatened to prove his undoing, the New Yorker's Jose Antonio Vargas has an insightful take on the man he calls "the boy king of Silicon Valley." It's worth reading in full – not least as an addendum if you're planning to go see The Social Network , the film about the Zuckerberg due to be released next month – but here's a few sharp takes.