Does
a man--because women don't seem to enter into this enterprise except to
get a nerd mad enough to start a new technical social network--have to
be an SOB to become a billionaire? Do you belong to and participate in Facebook? Do you know who  Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield, Sean Parker, twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, just to name a few people, are? Did you grow up with a computer and the Internet?

I can only say yes to belonging to facebook,
having gone there a few times, though I don't have the patience to deal
with all of it. As far as the rest goes I have no idea how much is true
and how much is a typical Hollywood exaggerated biography. Is Zuckerberg really such an uncaring, friend betraying loser who is a billionaire?
Was/is Sean Parker such a wheeler dealer charismatic drug taking who
propelled facebook to have 500 million users and be worth $25 billion of which he owns 7% of the stock?

There may be a generation gap here because I just looked at the metacritic web page and it scored 97 out of 100 by 40 critics mainly who are
computer/Internet baby boomers and I only came to both in the last 10
years.

The movie is very well acted--it has to be if Jesse Eisenberg, as Zuckerberg, can make a very unlikable person watchable and  Andrew Garfield, as the BFF of Zuckerberg who is betrayed by the latter, so vulnerable--as the director, David Fincher, and the screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, keep the film and the cast moving at breakneck speed. Justin Timberlake, with the rest of the males in the cast, all give strong performances.

Aside
from the call girls and girlfriends or the office workers in mini
skirts the only female with a strong role in the picture is Rooney Mara,
as Erica Albright. The way I
see it, it was due to her breaking up with Mark that got everything
started. She should really be getting/making some of the facebook money.

This certainly is a movie for geeks, nerds and those who understand computers and the Internet more than I do.