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Mark Zuckerberg

About Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an internet entrepreneur and philanthropist from America. He co-founded Facebook and serves as its current chairman and chief executive officer. A New York native, Zuckerberg studied psychology and computer science at Harvard University. During this period, he and his college roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, launched Facebook from their dormitory. Initially meant to be for select college campuses, the site witnessed exponential growth in the following few years and became the world’s biggest social media platform. As of the third quarter of 2018, Facebook had amassed over 2.27 billion monthly active users. Zuckerberg has also been involved with several other projects, including Wirehog, a file-sharing program, and Internet.org, a conglomerate of several companies attempting to bring affordable access to selected internet services in less developed countries. Over the course of his professional career, Zuckerberg has encountered a number of legal controversies. In April 2018, he appeared before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to testify on Facebook’s use of personal data in relation to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data breach. Since 2010, he has been listed among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people by ‘Time’ magazine as part of its Person of the Year issue. In 2016, Forbes named him the 10th most powerful person in the world.

Childhood & Early Life

Born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the four children and only son of Karen (née Kempner) and Edward Zuckerberg. His mother is a psychiatrist while his father is a dentist.His three sisters are Randi, Donna and Arielle. They grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in a Reform Jewish household. He is a descendant of immigrants from Germany, Poland, and Austria.Zuckerberg was an exemplary student. He attended Ardsley High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire, in his junior year. During his time there, he earned several prizes in science and classical studies.He also went to the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer camp. Zuckerberg is reportedly fluent in French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek. He also served as the captain of the fencing team at his prep school.Zuckerberg has been creating software programs since he was in school. His father gave him some of his first lessons in programming by teaching him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s. He was later taught by software developer David Newman. One of his first programs was Zucknet, which is considered to be a precursor of AOL's Instant Messenger.

College Life & Development of Facebook

While Mark Zuckerberg was in high school, he landed a job at a company called Intelligent Media Group to develop a music player called Synapse Media Player. He had already garnered a reputation as a programming prodigy when he enrolled in Harvard in 2002. As part of the class of 2006, he was pursuing degrees in psychology and computer science and was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi and Kirkland House. During his sophomore year, he developed a program that he named Facemash, which allowed the students to pick the best-looking person from a selection of photographs.After being active during the weekend, Facemash was closed down by Harvard as it clogged one of its network switches and denied many students access to the internet. There were also complaints from many students about the use of their photographs without their consent. Zuckerberg eventually made a public apology.In January 2004, he developed the code for his new website. On 4 February, he launched “TheFacebook” from his college dormitory. At first, their service was limited only to Harvard but later Zuckerberg decided to expand it to other schools.

Career: Facebook

On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room. 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". Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone numbers.Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California and a flagship service of the namesake company Facebook, Inc. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

The founders initially limited Facebook membership to Harvard students. Membership was expanded to Ivy League schools, MIT, and higher education institutions in the Boston area, then various other universities, and lastly high school students. Since 2006, anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook, though this may vary depending on local laws. The name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students.The Facebook service can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing information about themselves. They can post text, photos and multimedia which is shared with any other users that have agreed to be their "friend", or, with a different privacy setting, with any reader. Users can also use various embedded apps, join common-interest groups, buy and sell items or services on Marketplace, and receive notifications of their Facebook friends' activities and activities of Facebook pages they follow. Facebook claimed that it had more than 2.3 billion monthly active users as of December 2018. `

Facebook has been subject to extensive media coverage and many controversies. These often involve user privacy (as with the Cambridge Analytica data scandal), political manipulation (as with the 2016 U.S. elections), psychological effects such as addiction and low self-esteem, and content that some users find objectionable, including fake news, conspiracy theories, and copyright infringement. Commentators have accused Facebook of helping to spread false information and fake news. In 2017, Facebook partnered with fact checkers from the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network to identify and mark false content, though most ads from political candidates are exempt from this program. Critics of the program accuse Facebook of not doing enough to remove false information from its website. Facebook was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s globally.

Personal Life

While Mark Zuckerberg was still attending Harvard, he met a biology student named Priscilla Chan at a fraternity party. They started dating sometime in 2003. Chan went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In September 2010, they moved in together in his rented house in Palo Alto. They married on May 19, 2012, in Zuckerberg's backyard. The occasion also commemorated Chan’s graduation from medical school.Chan underwent three miscarriages before giving birth to their daughter, Maxima, in 2015. In February 2016, the couple announced Maxima’s Chinese name, Chen Mingyu. Their second daughter, August, was born in August 2017.In July 2009, American author Ben Mezrich published his book ‘The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal’ through Doubleday. It was later turned into a film, the 2010 release, ‘The Social Network’. Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, David Fincher served as the director, and Jesse Eisenberg portrayed Zuckerberg.

Religion, Politics & Philanthropy

Mark Zuckerberg grew up Jewish but later came out as an atheist. However, he has since stated that he has changed his position on the subject and now believes that religion is very important. There is a debate on Zuckerberg’s political affiliation. Some believe that he is a conservative while others consider him to be a liberal. Zuckerberg has donated money for education and immigration reforms. He supports the Black Lives Matter movement and instructed that the said phrase be written on the company walls. In December 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan set up Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a limited liability company, with the aim to “advance human potential and promote equality in areas such as health, education, scientific research and energy”.In an open letter to their daughter, Maxima, Chan and Zuckerberg revealed that they have decided to donate 99% of their Facebook shares to the initiative during their lives. They have also donated money for various other causes and services, including the battle against Ebola virus disease, an open-source personal web server called Diaspora, and Newark Public Schools.

Legal Issues

Facebook company has had to deal with many crisis especially privacy issues in its relatively short existence:

Awards

• 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was named the Person of the Year by ‘Time’ magazine.
• 2013, He was awarded CEO of the Year accolade at the 6th annual Crunchies.
• 2017, several years after dropping out of Harvard, Zuckerberg received an honorary degree from the college at its 366th commencement ceremony.
• 2017, he earned the dubious distinction of being named the recipient of the “Misinformer of the Year” award from the progressive media outlet group, Media Matters.

Citations

1. "Mark Zuckerberg". Forbes. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
2. "Our Leadership". Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
3. "The All-Time TIME 100 of All Time". April 18, 2012. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
4. "The World's Most Powerful People". Forbes. December 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Mark Zuckerberg
• The Famous People profiles: Mark Zuckerberg
• NBC NEWS: A Timeline of Facebook's privacy issues