The Social Network gets me wrong, says Mark Zuckerberg

According to Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, the 'Social Network' gets everything about his character wrong, apart from his geeky clothes. 

Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out against his portrayal in The Social Network, a film based on the founding of Facebook.

In a speech at Stanford University, Zuckerberg took umbrage with the film's suggestion that he mainly created the social-networking site in order to make new friends and join exclusive clubs. 

"They just can't wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things," he said. 

He also questioned one of the film's key plot lines, in which a fictional character called Erica Albright spurns Zuckerberg's advances. Zuckerberg said that he was already dating his current girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, when he created Facebook. 

However, in The Facebook Effect, the book upon which The Social Network is based, it is claimed that Zuckerberg dated a Berkeley undergraduate during a period of separation from Chan. 

But Zuckerberg was full of praise for the attention to detail shown in other aspects of the movie. He said that the outfits worn by his character in the film almost precisely matched his own taste in clothes. 

"It's interesting, the stuff they focused on getting right," he says. "Every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own." 

Facebook has avoided directly commenting on film since its release earlier this month. The Social Network has taken more than $80.5 million worldwide at the box office, and has received widespread critical acclaim.

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