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If you don’t know what Facebook is, you must be from another planet. Facebook is a social networking service which has more than 600 million active users.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepenur. He is best known for creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president. Born may 14, 1984 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, he had a big interest in computers. Even though, his father was a dentist, he studied Computer Science.
When he was 12, he created “Zucknet” a messaging program which his father used in his dental office. Zuckerberg’s parents saw that his son had an innate gift that should be developed, so they hired a pivate computer tutor, David Newman to come to their house once a week and work with Mark.
The tutor later said that it was hard to stay ahead of Mark.
In the early 2000’s, Mark created Synapse Media Player which was a musical app. It was an early version of the musical software Pandora.
Mark loved computers. However, he also won prizes in science (Math, Astronomy and Physics,). He was also a fencing star and capitan of the fencing team.
He speaks English, French, Hebrew, Latin, ancient Greek and he studies MandarinChinese to talk with his chinese girlfriend: Priscila Chan.
The beginning of Facebook started with “FaceMash” which compared the pictures of two students on campus and allowed users to vote on which one was more attractive.
It was criticized by Harvard University, who said it was innapropriate.
Finally, the biggest creation of Zuckerberg was launched in February 2004. First it was just for Harvard’s students but then it was for all the world.
Without doubt it’s one of the best social networks, and for some people the best.
For connecting more than a half billion people and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is Time’s 2010 person of the year.
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