Mark+Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the owner and founder of the widely popular website, [|www.facebook.com].

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in New York, and was brought up in a Jewish household. He has been programming computers since the age of 12. He attended the prestigious New England boarding high school, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. In 2002, he enrolled and attended Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. However, he did not complete a 4-year degree due to the success of Facebook, which he founded in 2004 along with his roommates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. He quit Harvard to work full time on the construction of Facebook. Now the popular friends network is used by "over 9.5 million people at 2,200 universities". Initially, Facebook was created as an online directory directed for Harvard University students only. Later the site gave access to the seven other Ivy League schools: Yale University, Brown University, Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth University, and Cornell University. Eventually the network reached U.S. schools only.

However, now Facebook ‘s network has extended to schools all over the world as well as high schools, companies, and regions. Towards the end of 2004, he created, along with another Harvard student and Facebook employee, a peer-peer file sharing program called Wirehog. This enabled users to share photos between computers but this has now disappeared. Zucker has been criticized for the advent of the 'news feed', a list of their friend's recent facebook activities, which was accused of being redundant and stalker-like. Zuckerberg after that sent an open later apologizing for the negative feedback on it and offered privacy options. Zuckerberg works at the Facebook’s headquarters which are located in Palo Alto, California.