As of this writing it's estimated that half of Canada is a registered user of Facebook. By the time this is published it could be 51 per cent.
The right mix of teen socializing and grandparent photo sharing has boosted Facebook to the monster it is today.
While hours can be spent discussing what Facebook is and what it has done to communication, instead The Social Network spends its two hour running time discussing the moment it happened and the lawsuits that followed its every step.
Jesse Eisenberg does a great job of playing Mark Zuckerberg as the film opens with him in a Boston college bar being dumped by his girlfriend.
This leads to him creating Fasemash that lets people rank Harvard women. While this almost gets him kicked out, it also leads to the website we know today.
From there it's a flashback and forward style storytelling that combines the launching and rapid growth of the site with the lawsuits discussing what happened.
Most notably is the lawsuit filed by Facebook co-founder ,and Zuckerberg's best friend, Eduardo Severin.
How much of this story is true is up for debate since Zuckerberg claims the movie is almost entirely fictional - but much of it came from the public record deposition transcripts, so who's to say?
Those looking for a light fluffy fare will not find it here thanks largely to all the great parts that brought it together.
For starters the director is David Fincher, who brought us Seven and Fight Club, and he's working from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental, and it's topped off with Mr. Moody himself Trent (Nine Inch Nails) Reznor doing the music.
When it comes right down to it, a film that plays California Uber Alles is all right by me.
