"I don't want friends."

Rating: 10/10 (11 October 2017)

I'm guessing, without really knowing, that Mark Zuckerberg would have heavily lobbied against this film ever coming out. It's not exactly flattering in it's portrayal of the man as a socially inept, should I say it, total a..hole, and it's a credit to Jesse Eisenberg that he was able to pull off the characterization so successfully. One thing I really couldn't figure out about Zuckerberg from watching the movie was what really motivated him. It probably had to do with creating something that exceeded anyone's expectations, because I didn't get a sense that he was in it for the money. Most folks would be, which is why the betrayal aspect of diluting Eduardo Saverin's (Andrew Garfield) ownership stake came across as so, so underhanded. What's ironic in the final analysis is that Zuckerberg wound up with five hundred million 'friends' on Facebook when in real life, he had all he could do to maintain one, and he blew that up pretty successfully. That was in 2010 when the movie came out. Facebook is about to achieve two billion! users at it's current pace, sometime in 2017 as I write this. That's over twenty five percent of the world's population! As a contrarian, I've never joined and have no interest. From what I've read, the site is too intrusive regarding your personal stats, and there are enough eyes watching everything you do as it is, from credit card monitoring to using your cell phone. Impossible to stay off the grid totally, until someone comes up with a reverse Facebook. Maybe then I'll sign up.