Mark Zuckerberg- Founder of Facebook

20Nov09

Mark Zuckerber is one of the co-founders of Facebook. He launched Facebook from his college dorm in Harvard. The name “Facebook” was the idea of the traditional yearbook where students pictures are all printed out on several pages with their names printed on the top. As a whole a yearbook is filled with head shots of the entire school such as students, faculty, and staff. Mark Zuckerber went to a prep school where they called their yearbook a “Facebook” which is where the name of the site “Facebook” orriginated. Once at college, Zuckerberg’s Facebook started off as just a “Harvard-thing”, until Zuckerberg then decided to spread Facebook to other schools. Without the help of Zuckerburgs roommate Dustin Moskovitz, this larger connection would not have been possible. They first spread it to most admirable schools such as Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford, Columbia, and Cornell, and other schools with social contact to Harvard.

Zuckerburg eventually moved out to California where he held his data base for “Facebook” along with his roommates. On Sept. 5 2005 Facebook launched News Feed, a product to show what your friends were doing on the site. Zuckerberg was criticized as some saw News Feed as unnecessary and a tool for cyberstalking. “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.”(Mark 1)

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