If you've seen The Social Network, you know Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't a bundle of joy.
And like most people in an authority role, Zuck feels like it's his God-given duty to make every moment a "teachable" one, even if it's simply giving an employee a gift for Hanukkah. Noah Kagan, an early employee at Facebook, received the classic grammatical book "Elements of Style" from Zuck, with a little note from him inside the cover.
From Kagan's ebook about Facebook:
There was a common thread weaved throughout the way things were done [at early Facebook]: an unbreakable set of "laws." I still vividly remember these six laws...[One was] Fix it...NOW! Periods and commas are everything! Attention to detail, grammar and ease of use are the most critical things on the site. I even got an early Hanukkah present from Mark, the book Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
Unfortunately for Zuck, when making his point about punctuation, he forgot "grammar" isn't spelled "grammer." Check it out:
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