The Creator Of Facebook

 Name
: Mark Zuckerberg.
 Occupation : Entrepreneur, Computer
programmer, philanthropist.
 Birth Date : May 14, 1984.
 Education : Ardsley High School ; Phillips
Exeter Academy; Harvard University.
 Place of birth : White Plains, New York.
 Zodiac sign : Taurus

 He
is the son of Karen and Edward Zuckerberg, a
psychiatrist and a dentist respectively.
 He is the only son of his parents and has three
sisters, Randi , Donna and Arielle.
 Zuckerberg was raised Jewish.
 At Ardsley High School, he excelled in classics.
 He transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy in his
junior year where he won prizes in science and
classical studies.
 He excelled in fencing as well and was known for
reciting poems.







Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age.
When he was about about 12, he used Atari BASIC to develop
a messaging programme called ‘Zucknet’ .
His father used the programme in his dental office so that the
receptionist could inform him of a new patient without yelling
across the room.
The Zuckerberg family also used zucknet to communicate
within the house.
Together with his friends, who were artists, he used to create
computer games for fun.
To keep up with his burgeoning interest in computers his
father hired a computer tutor to work with him who soon
realised that it was tough to stay ahead of the prodigy.


Mark Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University in 2002.
 By his sophomore year at the institution, he had developed
a reputation as the go-to software developer on campus.
 It was during his time here that he developed CourseMatch
and Facemash – two websites based on the students of
Harvard University.
 Facemash’s popularity had overwhelmed one of Harvard’s
network switches and prevented students from accessing
the internet. It was shut down by the university.
 On February 4, 2004, he launched ‘The facebook’
originally located at thefacebook.com from his dorm room
at Harvard.

 A day
after taking his company public and raising his
wealth to more than $19 billion, Facebook Chief
Executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime
girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.
 The 28-year-old entrepreneur posted the news on
his Facebook timeline Saturday evening, adding a
life event reading “Married Priscilla Chan”.


An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips
Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg
graduated in 2002

It published its own student directory, “The Photo Address
Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook.”

Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in
the company. They got their first office in mid-2004

On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform, a
development platform for programmers to create social
applications within Facebook

On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, a
version of Facebook Platform for users.

 Earlier,
in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the
advice of former Netscape CEO Peter
Currie about financing strategies for Facebook
 On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the
company had reached the 500 million-user
mark.
 A movie based on Zuckerberg and the
founding years of Facebook, The Social
Network was released on October 1, 2010,
starring Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg.


Facebook has received criticism on a wide range of issues,
including online privacy, child safety, hate speech, and the
inability to terminate accounts without first manually
deleting the content.

In 2008, many companies removed their advertising from
the site because it was being displayed on the pages of
individuals and groups they found controversial.

In 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation demonstrated
how anyone could gain access to information saved in a
facebook profile, even if it wasn’t meant to be public.

 In August
2007, the code used to generate
Facebook's home and search page as visitors
browse the site was accidentally made public. It
raised questions on how safe private data on the
site was.
 Quit Facebook Day was an online event which
took place on May 31, 2010 (coinciding
with Memorial Day), in which Facebook users
stated that they would quit the social network,
due to privacy concerns.


On May 31, 2008 the Canadian Internet Policy and Public
Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) Director, Phillipa Lawson, filed a
35-page complaint with the Office of the Privacy
Commissioner against Facebook based on 22 breaches of
the Canadian Personal Information Protection and
Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

Facebook allows users to deactivate their accounts but not
actually remove account content from its servers. A New
York Times article noted the issue, and raised a concern
that emails and other private user data remain indefinitely
on Facebook's servers.


Zuckerberg donated an undisclosed amount to Diaspora, an
open-source personal web server that implements a
distributed social networking service.
 On September 22, 2010, it was reported that Zuckerberg
had donated $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the
public school system of Newark, New Jersey.
 On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and
investor Warren Buffett signed a promise they called the
"Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to
charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time,
and invited others among the wealthy to donate 50% or
more of their wealth to charity.


On December 18, 2012, Zuckerberg announced a donation
of 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley
Community Foundation, which at the time of the donation
were worth a total of about $500 million USD.
 On February 13, 2013, Zuckerberg hosted his first ever
fundraising event for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
 Zuckerberg's particular interest on this occasion was
education reform, and Christie's education reform work
focused on teachers unions and the expansion of charter
schools.
 On April 11, 2013, Zuckerberg led the launch of a lobbying
group called FWD.us

After knowing a little bit more about mark
Zuckerberg we can conclude that as “EVERY
COIN HAS TWO SIDES” same way his
innovation FACEBOOK also has both good
and bad effects. If used in a proper way it is a
sensational innovation. It motivated a lot of
youngsters to come forward and innovate
something new!

Presented By Manisha
 Neha
 Varshini
 Uddita
 Muskan
 M.Aslam
 Akash
 Abin
 Kunal
 Virendra
 Utkarsh