Herea4‚¬a4„s a fun sidenote to Goldman Sachsa4‚¬a4„ investment into Facebook: The social networking companya4‚¬a4„s chief financial officer David Ebersman demonstrated Facebook yesterday to Goldman employees, according to Bloomberg.

Specifically, Ebersman walked Goldmana4‚¬a4„s private wealth-management team through how the site works and gave them pointers on how to explain Facebook to older clients. He was speaking in the firm&'s San Francisco office, but his presentation was transmitted to other Goldman offices.

The news made me smile because, even though Goldman has reportedly invested $450 million in Facebook and plans to allow clients to invest $1.5 billion more, the firm&'s employees normally cana4‚¬a4„t access Facebook in the office (as other articles have pointed out).

Of course, Goldman presumably had access to Facebooka4‚¬a4„s financial details, which, if you&'re going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a $50 billion valuation, are much more important than opening a Facebook account. As Facebook moves towards the initial public offering thata4‚¬a4„s expected in 2012, it will probably have to win over many more Wall Street types who dona4‚¬a4„t use the site themselves.

Neither Facebook nor Goldman has confirmed the deal yet.

The attention paid to Goldmana4‚¬a4„s Facebook access kind of reminds me of the fuss over the fact that Aaron Sorkin didna4‚¬a4„t join Facebook until hea4‚¬a4„d signed up to write the movie that became The Social Network. And hey, he wrote a great movie that might win him an Academy Award. It just didna4‚¬a4„t have anything to do with how Facebook works.

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