1. How did the creator of Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) manage to make it into such a big success in such a short time? Constantina Constantinou Constantina Constantinou

2. Mark Zuckerberg  He was born in 14 th of May 1984.  To the White Plains in New York  Family: jewish  Religion: Atheist.  He started programming when he was in middle school.  American businessman.  President of Facebook.  He is currently one of the youngest billionaires in the world with personal wealth of US $4 billion in 2010.

3. Facebook  Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information and other personal information. Communicating with friends and other users can be done through private or public messages or a chat feature. Users can also create and join interest and fan groups, some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising. To allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see what parts of their profile.  The website is free to users and generates revenue from advertising.By default, the viewing of detailed profile data is restricted to users from the same network and "reasonable community limitations".

4. Facebook  Facebook is a social networking website.  Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address can become a Facebook user.  Type: Private  Founded: Massachusetts, USA  Area served: Worldwide  Revenue: 300 milio  Employees: 1200+  Registration: Required  Available in: Multilingual

5. Facebook  The idea for Facebook came from his days at Phillips Exeter Academy which, like most colleges and prep schools, had a long - standing tradition of publishing an annual student directory with headshot photos of all students, faculty and staff known as the "Facebook“  Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard- thing", until Zuckerberg then decided to spread Facebook to other schools and enlisted the help of roommate

6. Facebook  First spread it to Stanford, Dartmouth and Columbia, and then to other schools with social contacts with Harvard.  Moving to California: Zuckerberg moved to California with some friends. They leased a small house which served as their first office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met one man who invested in the company. They got their first office during the summer of 2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard in the fall but eventually decided to remain in California. To date, he has not returned as a student to college.

7. Facebook Platform  On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced a Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. This announcement sparked a great deal of interest in the developer community. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. Today, there are more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.  On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, a version of Facebook Platform for users.

8. Microsoft investment in Facebook  On October 24, 2007, Facebook sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, rejecting a competing offer from online search leader Google.This would indicate that Facebook had a market value of $15 billion at the time of the sale. A software update for Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console has been released which added support for Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm  Facebook in 2009:As of December 2, 2009 Facebook has claimed that it has attained over 350 million users.  Movie:There is a movie based on Mark Zuckerberg and the surrounding creators of Facebook,called The Social Netwrork It is currently set to release in 2010, and stars Jesse Eisenbera and Justin Timberlake.

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