Who is this guy?

Born May 14, 1984, New York At high school he excelled in Classical Studies At university he was known for reciting lines from epic poems

Born May 14, 1984, New York At high school he excelled in Classical Studies At university he was known for reciting lines from epic poems Early on he enjoyed developing computer programs His net value is now over $4billion(US)

He is Mark Zuckerberg and he launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm on Feb Zuckerberg is currently CEO and President of Facebook The idea came from the old tradition of a school publishing an annual student directory with headshot pics of all students and staff, known as the “Facebook” He and his roommate spread it to other universities....

He left university, met an investor and set up an office in California in 2004 In 2007 he announced a Facebook Platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook Today there are over 800,000 developers building applications for this 2008 Facebook Connect was set up, a version of Facebook Platform for users

In 2007 Beacon, part of a social advertising system, enabled people to share info on their use of other sites – Eg a TradeMe seller could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed – The program came under heavy privacy concerns and users were offered an easier way to opt out of the service

May 2010 Facebook introduced new, simpler privacy controls after criticism of its latest privacy settings by users, govts and privacy groups, including NZ’s Privacy Commissioner Why?

It had changed the settings to share personal info with third parties (including external websites to tailor browsing experiences). Users were not told about this and had to opt out of the settings line by line to control their privacy To opt out of full disclosure of most info, it was necessary to click through more than 50 privacy buttons

In protest a Quit Facebook Day for May was launched While only 31,000 users (out of 450m) deleted their account, Facebook was sent a message that its users were fed up with surprise privacy changes

However, even if users did change their settings, any information already made public may have long found its way into other databases created by social media data mining companies Zuckerberg claims that the new policies will mean less info will be required to be public BUT it is not clear what data he is referring to

The Movie!! – There is a movie based on Mark Zuckerberg and the surrounding creators of Facebook, called The Social Network – It is currently due to be released in 2010 and stars Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake