Facebook founder denies starting it `to get girls`

New York: The founder of popular social networking site `Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has refuted claims that he started the company in order to "get girls". The 26-year-old world`s youngest billionaire`s denial came in the wake of a Hollywood movie -- `The Social Network`, which has portrayed him in an unflattering light and suggested he was motivated by having been dumped by a girlfriend.

"It`s pretty interesting to see what parts they got right and what parts they got wrong. I think that they got every single T-shirt that they had Mark Zuckerberg character wearing right. I think I actually own those T-shirts. "And they got the sandals right. But I mean, there are hugely basic things that they got wrong, too. They made it seem like my whole motivation for building Facebook was so I could get girls, right? "And they completely left out the fact that my girlfriend, I`ve been dating since before I started Facebook," `The Daily Telegraph` online quoted Zuckerberg as telling the CBS show `60 Minutes` in the US. The film has also focused heavily on a dispute between Zuckerberg and twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss over the genesis of Facebook. The twins, who attended Harvard with Zuckerberg, reportedly received a US dollars 65 million settlement after claiming he used their idea for a social networking website. However, Zuckerberg said the movie made it seem like the lawsuit had been "such a huge part of Facebook`s history", but he really spent "less than two weeks of my time worried about this." Zuckerberg said: "That they would be upset about this all these years later is kind of mind-boggling to me. I mean, after all this time, I feel bad that they still feel bad about it." PTI