Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and web site that was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his students who were studying computer science in 2004. In this essay I will be talking about it’s founder’s life, history and goals of the world’s number one social networking web site.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. Zuckerberg started using computers in middle school, he was taught Atari Basics Programming by his father; Mark took a course in Atari Basics Programming while he was in high school at Mercy College. By the time that he started attending classes at Harvard, he made a website with pictures of students in the university, he called it “Facemash”, basically it was a site that he used to put pictures of students at the university, and they had to vote “hot or not”. According to his roommate “he built it for fun” (Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia, 2011). The site stayed on for almost a week then it was shut down by the university administration. It was shut down because of its popularity also students couldn’t access the Internet; some students started complaining that their photos were being used in the site without their permission.
Zuckerberg started Facebook from his dorm room in the year 2004; students were able to list some important things that could help them connect with each other. Facebook started off as a “Harvard thing” until its founder decided to spread it to other schools that had connections with Harvard.
Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California with his friends in 2004, they rented a small house which was used as an office; however they got their first official office later on. They were planning to go back to Harvard but they we’re doing better than expected so they decided to stay in California. They rejected offers by big companies, Zuckerberg explained in 2007 saying “It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me”(Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia, 2011).
Now, I am going to talk about Facebook’s goals and objectives, it’s basically about connecting important things to other people, making things that help other people connect with each other, create a fast way for people to share about what’s happening around them. They think that Facebook would let them understand the world better and make it a better place to live in. Zuckerberg said "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open." (Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia, 2011).
In conclusion, you have to have a better point of view to the world and try your best to make it a better place, also you have to work hard as zuckerberg started his company with his roommates and ended up to be the youngest billionaire in 2008.
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Mark Zuckerberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved November 3, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
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