The Social Network: A (Semi)True Facebook Story

It started out as a way for college students to keep up with each other, but today Facebook is a communication power house. With more than 500 million active users world wide Facebook provides people and companies with an online social epicenter.

Companies use the site to build relationships with their customers.

Lets talk about why you should love our brand!

Moms use it to keep in touch with their kids and reconnect with their high school friends.

Hi honey how are you?

College students use it to share viral videos and plan their social lives.

Dude where's the party tonight?

Grandparents even use it to see the latest pictures of their grandchildren.

WOW even the old folks use it!

It has become the ideal forum for all types of social interaction. However, most people still don't know the whole story of how Facebook was created. The recently released film entitled The Social Network sheds some light into the shadowy past of this new media super power.

The film tells the story of how Harvard social outcast and computer nerd, Mark Zuckerberg, became founder of Facebook and one of the world's youngest billionaires. According to the film it all started because Zuckerburg was feeling lonely after a break up and wanted to rise his social standing.

However By Zuckerburg's account, and that of many others, most of the film is not true.

The movie depicts Eacebook as being founded on a series of betrayals.The filmmakers do their best to make you feel sorry for the people betrayed in Facebook's rise to fame, but you don't leave the theater hating Zuckerburg.

You just question his motives.

One thing the film certainly got right was the fact that after Facebook took off and became wildly successful Zuckerburg as called into court to face two different trials over the authenticity of the site and his ownership of the idea.

Below is an excellent excerpt from the film where Zuckerburg calls the prosecution out for his clients bullshit!

I hope that part of the movie is true!

In the weeks since the film was released there has been much speculation over how Facebook and Zuckerburg will react. Here is an Saturday Night Live sketch about the media attention and speculation.

Of course he created it because of a girl, why do men do anything!?!