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(Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, 1984) American

entrepreneur and computer programmer. Creator and president of the virtual
community Facebook, in 2008.
Originally called The Facebook, the Facebook project was originally intended to
create a network for students at Harvard University. The name of the site was a
reference to the newsletter that many universities provide to their new students
with the intention of helping them get to know each other upon their arrival at
the school.

The services offered by Facebook consisted mainly of the possibility of adding

friends, with whom it was possible to exchange photos and messages, and to
join groups, one of the utilities that would be developed later on. Each user, who
had to be registered, had a wall that allowed friends to write messages or send
gifts for the user to see. The superwall, a later improvement, would also allow
the embedding of flash animations.

In just two weeks, two-thirds of Harvard students had signed up for Facebook,
and by summer vacation that same year, more than thirty universities in the
United States had done so. When classes ended, Mark Zuckerberg took the
opportunity to move to Palo Alto, California, and set up his first office. Although
the young university student's first intention was to resume his studies at
Harvard after the break, business was booming and required his attention, so he
decided to leave Harvard and stay on the West Coast.
Facebook's Palo Alto offices occupied four buildings by 2008 and directly
employed more than four hundred people; the company had received buyout
offers from Viacom and Yahoo! and its annual turnover was estimated at around
one hundred and fifty million dollars.

The project spread like wildfire and soon spread to other educational institutions
and companies, until its success eventually led to the opening of its services to
the general public. By 2006 Facebook had become a worldwide phenomenon,
with 64 million users, concentrated in English-speaking countries such as the
United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Mark Zuckerberg currently ranks as the 10th richest person in the world and is
developing Threads, an open and friendly public space for conversations. It
takes the best parts of the Instagram experience and creates a new app
focused on texting ideas and sharing what you think.