The largest social network in the world today is Facebook. The site, originally created for Harvard students, has acquired the status of a powerful service with a billion users. He was created in 2004 by a hacker by vocation, a programmer, an expert in the field of Internet technologies and entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook - a service that allows you to create your profile, post photos, information about yourself, look for friends. Initially, students from Harvard University spoke at this site , then Boston students joined, and since 2006, all users of the World Wide Web over the age of 13 years could have registered there. His idea of creating a directory with the names and addresses of classmates on the network resource was made by second-year student Mark Zuckerberg.
Biography
On May 14, 1984, the Jewish family of dentist Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner, living in White Plains, New York, celebrated the birth of a second child. Mark Zuckerberg is the only boy of four children in the family. His enthusiasm for computer programming began when he was at school. Then Mark Elliot developed a network version of the game "Risk". Despite his hobbies and interest in computer technology, Zuckerberg goes to the University of Harvard at the Faculty of Psychology. Actively attending IT courses, the sophomore initiates the creation of a collection on the network resource of the collection "The Photo Address Book", or "The Facebook" ("The Book of Persons"), as it was called by students. The administration of the educational institution did not support this idea, referring to the confidentiality of the information. But Mark Zuckerberg with confidence of success and love for his hobby hacks the passwords of the Harvard computer network and creates a catalog with photos and basic personal information of students called "Facemash", which at the very beginning of the work attracted 22 thousand views. According to the idea of the author, students had to vote for the best photo. Soon the popularity of the catalog increased, the number of visitors increased, and the student was exposed, the site was closed. Mark was accused of penetrating into private life, threatened with an exception. The situation was settled, but the student-hacker did not refuse from his idea. Together with his fellow students, Mark Zuckerberg began to create a social network. At first the work was going on in the dorm room, but after the successful promotion of Facebook, the friends dropped out and left for California, where they surrendered to their favorite occupation. The start of the now popular network is 2004. In 2009, investment company Digital Sky Technologies (DST) buys shares of the Internet company Facebook Inc. For 200 million US dollars. Currently, the social network has more than a billion users who are offered many functions to interact with each other, as well as enough earning opportunities.
Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg is a young billionaire who is constantly present in the ranking of the richest people in the US. His wife in May 2012 became a friend from the student days Priscilla Chan, who is a doctor of medicine. The businessman is engaged in charity, leads an active lifestyle and develops his Internet project.