Fascinating even if it is only partly factual

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2020)

"The Social Network" is now ten years old. It's already ancient history in tech years. Anyway, it was enjoyable. I watched it via Comcast On Demand and I could not fast forward thru the endless, repetitive, commercials, which became oppressive.
It is an interesting movie. I haven't paid that much attention to Zuckerberg, or really how Facebook was created. So I found it fascinating. I'm not surprised I suppose that Zuckerberg is portrayed as a monster, at least in some ways. It comes with the territory. I knew a man who was a developer during the dot com boom, and there's a lot of craziness going on here that I recognized -- that I lived through, in a way. Those were strange times. They were strange people. It was weird and bizarre. There will likely never be anything quite like that again.
And the whole connection with Sean Parker (Napster) was news to me. Like I said, strange times. Also -- it was funny: the actor playing Parker looked oddly familiar. Hah! It is (of all people) Jusin Timberlake. Who is quite good. So is Andrew Garfield. Eisenberg is just wonderful and I think did a great job in the role.
The acting is fantastic. It's an ensemble cast that shines. The music is wonderful. I have nothing bad to say about the movie. It was worth watching, even while being tortured by commercials every ten or fifteen minutes.
Here is it ten years after the movie was made and Facebook -- well.... it has over 1.5 billion members.