The weekend box office winner, ‘The Social Network‘, gives a good look at how this generation’s biggest social media impact — Facebook — came to be. But, not everything you saw in the film is true!

MTV’s Movie Blog breaks the movie down and gives us a look at what was added for plot.

WARNING: May contain spoilers!

A few interesting points:

-Mark Zuckerberg‘s (Jesse Eisenberg) female hangup, ‘Erica‘ (Rooney Mara) from Boston University was an addition to the plot. She wasn’t a real lady friend in Mark’s life, even though she was a re-occuring emotional issue for the Facebook founder in the movie.

In fact, Mark had a steady girl in his life throughout the time he was developing Facebook. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg made things official in 2005, after she was hired to work for his company. The blogger thinks she was left out so that audiences wouldn’t find his character easy to sympathize with:

“Zuckerberg in the film is not motivated by a desire to attract women; if anything Facebook becomes the object of his affection”

Interesting!

So what about Sean Parker/Justin Timberlake‘s run-in with the cops and some white powder?

True! But, it didn’t happen at a party with underage Facebook interns. Parker was let go as president of Facebook after he was caught with cocaine on a 2005 kiteboarding trip in North Carolina. He wasn’t charged, but he was no longer considered trustworthy.

Totally crazy stuff! Read more tidbits from ‘The Social Network’ at the source.

Remember, kids, don’t believe everything you see on T.V. — or in this case, the movies!