Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.Zuckerberg's personal wealth is estimated to be $9.4 billion as of 2012.
Born and raised in
New York state, Zuckerberg began writing software as a hobby in middle school,
with help from his father and a tutor (who called him a prodigy). In high
school, he excelled in classic
literature and fencing while studying at Phillips Exeter Academy. Zuckerberg
later attended Harvard College,
majoring in computer science and psychology. In his sophomore year, he wrote a notorious application
that he called Facemash that allowed students on the college's
network to vote on the relative attractiveness of other students. It was shut
down within days, and led to disciplinary action.
He launched
Facebook from his dormitory room. With the help of friends, he took Facebook to
other campuses nationwide and soon after moved to Palo Alto, California. By
2007, Facebook had made him a billionaire at the age of 23. By 2010, Facebook had an estimated 500
million users worldwide and reached 1 billion in 2012. Zuckerberg was involved
in various legal disputes initiated by others who claimed a share of the
company due to their help in setting it up.Since 2010, Zuckerberg has been
named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time magazine's Person of the Year. In 2010, a fictionalized account of
Zuckerberg's life was made into a film, The Social Network.
Facebook is the second largest social network
on the web, behind only MySpace in terms of traffic. Primarily focused
on high school to college students, Facebook has been gaining market share, and
more significantly a supportive user base. Since their launch in February 2004,
they've been able to obtain over 8 million users in the U.S. alone and expand
worldwide to 7 other English-speaking countries, with more to follow. A growing
phenomenon, let's discover Facebook.
Facebook
is a massively successful social networking service that grew to prominence in
virtually no time. It's not hard to see why: its features and tools are highly
appealing, and Facebook users are extremely well networked in real life. Rumors
of an acquisition continue to circulate, with some estimates putting the price
in the billions of dollars. In the short term, however, Facebook plans to go it
alone, continuing to build out one of the world's most successful social
networks.
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