Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook

facebook - who doesn't know him from children to parents, from celebrities to ordinary people, from students to street children, all know Facebook as a social networking site that makes it easy for them to hang out and chat with each other Even friends or even others they don't even know, many old friends who have long been separated and lost track of their Facebook, they can meet again, many school reunions are held through the world's largest social networking site.

Very few people know the owner and inventor of Facebook, he is an unpretentious young man born in 1984 with a total wealth of more than 17 billion US dollars, equivalent to 170 trillion Rupiah, not a little wealth for a young child. Included in the ranks of the 400 richest people by Forbes magazine and as a Person of the year 2010 version of the Times magazine.

Facebook inventor: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in White Plains New York on May 14, 1984 and later grew up at Dobbs Ferry still in the New York area of ​​the US. Since childhood, he has been interested in computer programming, at the age of 12, little Mark has created a simple massaging program that is used at home by his family to relate to each other, even used in his father's office, a dentist, so the receptionist does not need to call out if there is patient comes. Besides that he also made friends with his friends with his friends.

During his college years at Harvard Mark and his friends were threatened with DO for successfully penetrating the campus computer network security system and illegally copying hundreds of photos of students he arranged side by side on a site that he named facemash a year before the launch of Facebook, on this site The user is asked to choose who is more attractive between the two photos he displays on each page of the site, but eventually the campus forgives him with the condition that Mark and his friends must close the site.


Academic achievement
During the school Mark Elliot Zuckerberg showed brilliant achievements, he was prominent in the field of literature, he mastered several languages ​​other than his mother tongue in English, such as French, Hebrew, Latin and ancient Greek, several times won an award in the exact sciences. His interest in the computer field motivated him to continue to create new software, some of which had been offered to be bought by giant companies such as AOL and Microsoft. As a teenager he was also active in extracurricular activities including being a captain of the fencing team at his school.

After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Zuckerberg continued his studies at the famous Harvard University, but unfortunately only arrived in the second year, because at that time he and his fellow Facebook founders decided to quit college and focus on their projects to create Facebook as we now enjoy it for free.
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History of Facebook
Starting from his dorm room at Harvard, Zuckerberg and several friends launched this friendship site on February 4, 2004, while the facebook name was taken from the Phillips Exeter Academy alumni directory they had created, which was a kind of graduation book or force book if they were recorded, containing the name, address, telephone number including photos and other identities that can be accessed by its members online, and students call it "The Facebook" that is the forerunner to the formation of social networking sites that now reach more than 600 million users worldwide.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Simple and unassuming young billionaires

In the first month, Facebook had captured no less than half of Harvard students. Initially Facebook was created exclusively for Harvard students, but it was later extended to other campuses, secondary schools and even offices until September 2006 Facebook was officially opened to the public aged 13 years and over.

Facebook developed into the most popular site beating sites like MySpace and even rival search engine giants like Google and Yahoo, with millions of visitors per month. In Indonesia the number of Facebook users reaches 24 million or around 10 percent of the total population of Indonesia and ranks second largest after the United States.

Now Facebook employs more than 1,700 employees spread across 12 branch offices throughout the world, unfortunately its office does not yet exist in Indonesia. The source of all Facebook revenue from ad serving, the Microsoft software king is the main Facebook advertiser.