Facebook’s founder is not a friend of The Social Network

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has made an unprecedented attack on a film about the social networking site saying it is not based on reality.

Previously the former Harvard student said he had "no plans" to see The Social Network, which portrays him as an isolated loner who creates the social networking site to make himself popular.

But the 26-year-old billionaire hit out at the movie, saying it got it wrong in a lecture at Stanford University in America.

Facebook staff so far have been careful not to comment on the film, which stars Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, who also worked on the site.

Zuckerberg told a group of aspiring entrepreneurs that the film suggested he created Facebook "because I wanted to get girls, or wanted to get into clubs", and that he was dumped by a girlfriend shortly beforehand.

In reality, he said, he has been with girlfriend Priscilla Chan since before he founded Facebook.