you can't believe everything you see
especially on Facebook
welcome to watchmojo.com things the
social network got factually right and
wrong for this list we'll be looking at
what was historically accurate and what
was fiction in this 2010 drama number 10
mark went to a meeting in pajamas right
in the book the Facebook effect author
David Kirkpatrick outlines the history
of a social media network and confirms
that Zuckerberg did in fact attend a
meeting in pajamas the entire thing was
a prank that Sean Parker had convinced
Zuckerberg to play on venture capitalist
firm Sequoia Capital Parker wanted
revenge on Michael Moritz a partner at
Sequoia whom he blamed for hosting him
from his previous company Plaxo
Zuckerberg and another partner turned up
late and made a presentation about why
Sequoia shouldn't invest in one of their
projects Zuckerberg later admitted that
he regretted it and that it was a story
he wasn't proud of number nine marks
love life wrong when Mark Zuckerberg was
in his sophomore year at Harvard he met
Priscilla Chan at a frat in 2003 and the
two soon started dating they eventually
married in 2012 interestingly the action
of the social network kicks off in the
fall of 2003 and shows Zuckerberg being
dumped which Spurs him to create
Facemash
this is a joke no it's not while part of
this is true more on that later the film
later shows Zuckerberg as developing
Facebook partly to meet girls when in
fact by that point he had already
started dating his future wife and at
some center you know that's what the
Facebook is gonna be about people are
gonna log on because after all the cake
and watermelon there's a chance they're
actually gonna get laid he's a girl
number eight
Eduardo froze the facebook bank account
right in the movie we see Eduardo
Saverin opposing Sean Parker's
involvement in Facebook's business
dealings and then freezing Facebook's
accounts can I help you
I'd like to freeze this bank account and
cancel all existing checks and lines of
credit this did actually happen and
Zuckerberg was forced to pay for many
expenses using his personal funds
what happened next however isn't
entirely accurate in the film Saverin is
enraged when he finds out his shares are
being decreased from 34% to point zero
three percent and what was your
ownership share diluted down to point
zero three percent his shares were
diluted drastically but down to ten
percent in an email to his lawyer at the
time Zuckerberg wondered is there a way
to do this without making it painfully
apparent to him that he's being diluted
to 10 percent no there was not better
lawyer up [ __ ] because I'm not coming
back for 30 percent I'm coming back
number seven marks business card said
I'm CEO [ __ ] right in a scene that
takes place in a club Zuckerberg meets
with Sean Parker of Napster Fame and
Parker gives him an inspirational speech
about his hopes for Facebook saying he
wants him to be able to hand out a
business card that says I'm CEO [ __ ]
[Music]
we later see mark having cards made with
the phrase on them in Kirkpatrick's book
the Facebook effect
he states that Zuckerberg had two
different business cards during this
period one simply said CEO while the
other really did read I'm CEO [ __ ]
what's the package nothing
number six Facemash was shut down by
harvard right just like in the movie the
humble origins of facebook involved a
rather cruel site that mark set up that
compared to female Harvard students
photos so that users could vote on who
is more attractive it's my roommate and
just like in the movie it was an instant
success with 450 people visiting the
site in the first four hours it was
running as we see more and more students
using it we also see the concern of the
administration at the surge in network
usage Harvard did eventually shut down
the site and Zuckerberg was given
academic probation as a punishment six
months academic probation number five
how Sean Parker discovered Facebook
wrong it's true that Sean Parker who is
known for co-founding Napster played a
major role in the early days of Facebook
in fact he was its first president in a
memorable scene from the movie we see
Parker wake up in bed after a one-night
stand with a girl who goes to Stanford
he was her when he reveals who he is and
then discovers Facebook when he logs
into her computer and sees that she's
been using it in real life though
Parker's roommates girlfriend was the
Stanford student who introduced him to
the site for two weeks now it's really
awesome number four Eduardo's chicken
cannibalism accusation wrong in the
movie Eduardo Saverin is hilariously
accused of animal cruelty in an article
published in the Harvard Crimson the
writers are incensed that savrinn fed
chicken to a chicken while taking care
of the animal for his initiation into
the Phoenix Club the Harvard Crimson did
publish an article about Phoenix Club
and chickens in December 2003
little pieces of chicken and I gave it
to the chicken someone must have seen me
because the next thing I knew I was
being accused of forced cannibalism but
it was about claims that the club
tortured and killed chickens not chicken
cannibalism and there was nothing about
Saverin in there so this part of the
movie is mostly false I knew here did it
you planted that story about the chicken
I didn't plot the story about that
what's he talking about
number three Zuckerberg dropped out of
Harvard right on screen we saw the
whirlwind journey from marks Harvard
dorm to Silicon Valley and it's shown
that mark chooses to focus on his new
company rather than his studies this is
factually accurate and in order to
pursue his work on Facebook Zuckerberg
dropped out of Harvard during his
sophomore year and did not return Mary
found a house for rent on a street two
blocks from the Stanford campus it is
perfect and it's got a pool when do you
decide to go to California for the
summer in 2017 once the site had become
a massive success and turned him into
one of the most famous men in the world
the university awarded him with an
honorary degree number two Eduardo
Saverin was marks only bestfriend wrong
in the social network it's established
that Eduardo Saverin is mark's best
friend who comes to check on him after
learning about his breakup via a blog
post hey Mark
Pardo how did you know that it's on your
blog Saverin said of the film in an
interview that's Hollywood fantasy not a
documentary
the reality is Zuckerberg had another
close friend and collaborator who didn't
make it into the movie Adam D'Angelo was
a friend of marks from Exeter and was
the chief technology officer of Facebook
as well as its vice president of
engineering don't worry about D'Angelo
though because he found plenty of
success when he co-founded Quora the
potential this is huge and if we can
execute on our mission we're really
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created because of a breakup right the
social network opens with a bang we see
mark having a beer with his girlfriend
Erica Albright and watch as Erica
decides to dump him the thing is though
Erica Albright doesn't exist she was a
fabrication for the film what is true
though is that heartbreak spurred mark
on to start Facemash which eventually
evolved into Facebook he wrote on his
blog one night Jessica a is a [ __ ] I
need to think of something to take my
mind off her I need to do something to
take my mind off her easy enough except
I need an idea it was that same night
that the site was launched and the rest
is social media history coincidence I
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