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** To paraphrase Zuckerberg, he's probably too busy having sex with numerous women on his gigantumous pile of money to be particularly bothered by this.
** Also, the major difference between Eduardo and Mark's visions of Facebook is that Eduardo wanted advertising, while Mark felt it would cheapen the coolness of the website. Given that Facebook makes an astoundingly large portion of its money from assisting advertisers target potential customers these days, it seems Eduardo won in the end.
** Justin Timberlake portrays Sean Parker, who, prior to the founding of Facebook, had a hand in founding Napster. In 2011, Timberlake himself will oversee a re-launch of Facebook's former competitor Myspace, which jumps from social media to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130116115147/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/revamped-myspace-planning-to-take-on-itunes-1005326022.story online music store]. That move in itself would pit Myspace against current competitors iTunes, Spotify and, albeit a shell of its former self, Napster.
** The hits keep on rolling with Sean Parker: in October 2011, he joined Twitter, Facebook's direct competitor, after swearing he never would.
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade|Historical Upgrade]]: Prior to the movie, Shawn Fanning was the most well-known person behind Napster, with many unaware of his business partner Sean Parker. The film frames Sean, not Shawn, as the well-recognized sole founder of Napster. It's been argued that the film's Sean Parker is intended as a [[Composite Character]] of the two.
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