Top 18 Social Network Movie Facts

Following is our collection of Social Network facts. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Social Network film message.

In 'The Social Network' (2010) the program Zuckerberg is using to write his journal post highlights "facebook" as a spelling mistake because the movie is set before the program exists

In The Social Network (2010) Eduardo grabs a beer for both him and Mark. Mark doesn't notice he got them and only grabs ones for himself. A nice subtlety toward the nature of their characters.
In The Social Network (2010) Eduardo grabs a beer for both him and Mark. Mark doesn't notice he got them and only grabs ones for himself. A nice subtlety toward the nature of their characters.

Social Network Trivia

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  1. A character mentions how Harvard has "Nobel laureates, future Olympians, and a movie star." He doesn't say who it is onscreen, but he is referencing Natalie Portman who attended Harvard in 2003 when the movie takes place.

  2. Andrew Garfield accidentally writes the exponentiation in the the Elo rating equations as a multiplication, meaning that their FaceMash website for comparing women would not have worked.

Social Network Easter Eggs

Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.

  • Mark is logged in under the alias Tyler Durden - referencing "Fight Club", also a Fincher movie.

  • 1 - We can see a reference to the directors earlier movie; Fight Club (1999).When Mark Zuckerberg is on thefacebook the name "Tyler Durden" can be seen on top of the page. Both movies were directed by David Finch.
    We can see a reference to the directors earlier movie; Fight Club (1999).When Mark Zuckerberg is on thefacebook the name "Tyler Durden" can be seen on top of the page. Both movies were directed by David Finch.

  • The fake Facebook profile that Mark created to cheat on his final exam is under the alias "Tyler Durden," which references Fight Club(1999)

Social Network Hidden Details

1 - When Zuckerberg is blogging on LiveJournal, the word Facebook is underlined as the word was not yet recognized by dictionaries or online editors. It now is.
When Zuckerberg is blogging on LiveJournal, the word Facebook is underlined as the word was not yet recognized by dictionaries or online editors. It now is.
1 - During the scene in which Mark Zuckerberg hacks the Harvard servers, he refers to and types out "facebook," and his computer underlines it as an unknown or misspelled word. It also doesn't autocorrect to capitalize it.
During the scene in which Mark Zuckerberg hacks the Harvard servers, he refers to and types out "facebook," and his computer underlines it as an unknown or misspelled word. It also doesn't autocorrect to capitalize it.
1 - Mark wears a shirt with the Arm & Hammer logo on it. Armie Hammer plays the Winklevoss twins in the film.
Mark wears a shirt with the Arm & Hammer logo on it. Armie Hammer plays the Winklevoss twins in the film.

Erica Albright says "you would do that for me?" in a sarcastic and condescending tone. Later, Mark says the same thing to the Winklevoss twins when they said they could help "clear his name".

Scene where Mark comes home to see Eduardo waiting outside his dorm, Eduardo says "We were supposed to meet at 9". A similar message is seen very briefly on the whiteboard of Mark's door, written by Eduardo.

Dreadlock Holiday by 10cc plays during the "Caribbean" party scene, a song by white guys notorious for being problematic. This highlights the inauthenticity of the frat party.

The score that plays during the invention of the relationship status is close to Blur's "Girls and Boys"

- Dinner with Sean Parker

1 - When mark calls Eduardo outside, Ed says its 20 degrees outside, which is likely the exact temperature and not just a random cold temperature, because mark earlier mentioned that Eduardo liked meteorology, and made 300k betting on oil futures with his knowledge of it.
When mark calls Eduardo outside, Ed says its 20 degrees outside, which is likely the exact temperature and not just a random cold temperature, because mark earlier mentioned that Eduardo liked meteorology, and made 300k betting on oil futures with his knowledge of it.
1 - Mark is seen in an Ardsley T shirt from his high school showing he has no money right before the meeting with Peter Thiel who gives him an angel investment which suggests why Mark agrees to do what he does to Eduardo.
Mark is seen in an Ardsley T shirt from his high school showing he has no money right before the meeting with Peter Thiel who gives him an angel investment which suggests why Mark agrees to do what he does to Eduardo.

Cast and Details

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