In his first public question and answer session, Mark Zuckerberg criticises the Hollywood portrayal of him.
09:17, UK,
Friday 07
November 2014
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the makers of the movie The Social Network "made up" things and left him feeling hurt.
During his first public question and answer session the
billionaire said the movie - which chronicled the rise of Facebook - was
massively inaccurate.He said: "They just kind of made up a bunch of stuff that I found really hurtful.
"They made up this whole plot line about how I somehow decided to create Facebook to attract girls.
Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network
The film, directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, won three Oscars in 2011.
There were also 200 people in attendance invited from neighbourhoods close to the company's California HQ.
One person asked why users were recently forced to install the Facebook Messenger app on their phone.
Mr Zuckerberg said: "On mobile, each app really can focus on doing one thing well, we think.
"You're probably messaging people 15, 20 times a day, and having to go into an app and wait for it to load and then go through a bunch of steps to get to your messages or send a message is a lot of friction."
When quizzed on Facebook's display algorithms, he said that on average there are 1,500 posts eligible to be shown in a person's news feed each day, but just 100 are displayed.
He said: "No person will look at everything."
One cheeky user asked why he wears the same grey t-shirt every day.
Mr Zuckerberg responded: "I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.
"I'm in this really lucky position where I get to wake up every day and help serve more than a billion people, and I feel like I'm not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous about my life, so that way I can dedicate all of my energy towards just building the best products and services."
He also said a massive effort needs to be made to get more women into tech - and said that he could not have built Facebook alone, saying it was a team effort.