Mark Zuckerberg wants status and belonging Harvard's final clubs won't give him, so he builds a website that gives the world both — and loses his best friend and co-founder to the company he built to prove he mattered.

1. Scene 1

   Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.

2. Scenes 1–49

   He wants to matter — to be let into the final clubs, to be exceptional enough that Erica's verdict is wrong — and Facemash is the first proof-of-concept.

3. Scene 50

   Cameron, Tyler, and Divya recruit Mark to build HarvardConnection — the idea that becomes Facebook arrives from outside him.

4. Just before
5. Scene 88

   Cameron reads an e-mail from Mark expressing doubts about HarvardConnection's ability to draw critical mass.

6. Scene 89

   Divya accuses Mark outright of stealing their idea in deposition, and Mark needles him back by asking if he can see any of his own code on Facebook.

7. Scene 90

   Working through exhaustion on theFacebook's profile page, Mark is asked by Dustin whether a girl in his art class has a boyfriend — and the exchange sparks Mark's idea for a relationship-status field.

8. Scene 91

   This scene