FACEBOOK!

Mark Zuckeberg 

The geek who changet the world

Mark Zuckerberg creted Facebook in 2004, aged 19.

today he is the second youngest billionarie* in the world.

Thanks to the success of Facebook., Mark Zuckerberg has a personal fortune of around 14 billion* dollars. But the 27-year-old businessman has very modest lifestyle. He wears jeans, T-shirts and trainers*, constatly and is studing Chinese.

Zudkerbers was a computer prodigy from a young age: his friends did illustrations whichi he transformed into computer games.

He also showed a special talent for Latin, Ancient Greek and fencing*.

He left New York in 2002to go to Harvard, an elite American university, to studiy psychology and computer science. He was shy* and people thought he was a geek. He started to develop social* network sites for fun.

Zuckerberg hacked* into Harvard's computer system on 20 October 2003. He copied private photos of university students to ccreate a site called Facemash. On the site, sutdents could see photos.

He was not discouraged.
Zuckerberg understood the demand for a website to share* personal information with friends. So in 2004, he lunched* Facebook from his university berdroom. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Hervard students had singed* up. after one month, more than half* of the student population at Harvard had a Facebook porfile.


Facebook soon arrived at other universities. Zuckerberg left harvard without graduating* - He wanted to spend time developing his site. In just seven years, facebook changed the world. 


With 800 million users, Facebook is now the biggest website on the planet. Zuckerberg wants to keep Facebook users on the site for longer by sharing music, films amd personal information in the Timeline*. 


Zuckerberg has had problems with his site. Three Harvard students accused his of copying their ideas to crate Facebook, and mon * a lawsuit* against him in 2008. Zuckerberg, a private person, has also been critized for Facebook's principales: making private information public...


The young billionarie* doesn't care* about this, though. He also says that he didn't just want to make money. "The thing I really care about is the mssion, making the world open, " hesays. 


Facebook for your phoe has helped Zuckerberg complete his mission... and made wven more money for his company. But like Mircrosoft's Bill Gates, Zuckerberg promises to gime half of his money to charty. With everything he does, Mark Zuckerberg continues to change the world...