Mark Zuckerberg is quite young, and has a movie made about himself and his life's work, so I would not expect him to be objective about this. My strong opinion,

Mark Zuckerberg is quite young, and has a movie made about himself and his life's work, so I would not expect him to be objective about this. My strong opinion, considering myself hacker and filmmaker, is that both activities share the same motivation, which is exactly creating things. The process might differ in some ways, but when I create a software or a movie, I am driven by a similar passion. I cannot imagine a movie director or writer not being fully in love with the material he or she is developing. They usually live and sleep with it, it affects their personal life very much, so it is not really something you can pretend to enjoy. If you do pretend, that shows, and you usually end up with a bad movie. I'd advice to watch this charlie rose interview of Sorkin and Fincher: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11223 http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11223 . At one point, they mention they tried to talk to Mark, in order to have a counter opinion from the one expressed in the 'accidental billionaire' book, but he turned down the offer. I am sure Sorkin, while aiming to be very entertaining, wished he could stay as close to reality as possible.