Zuckerberg, Facebook Creator.

the younger miliuner in the planet..

More than one hundred million citizens of the world is now enamored with the social networks in the virtual world, Facebook.com. Through this site, users are able to expand across continents, even back "meeting" with his friends or girlfriend who does not look old again after parting school.

U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama and even take advantage of this site as one way to achieve support in the U.S. Presidential Elections, years ago. This is the work of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, a U.S. Jewish descent, one of three founders of Facebook.

Why Facebook booming? Information technology specialist, Dr Linda M Gallant, Assistant Professor of Emerson College, Boston, gave an explanation, "the Internet site provides general information and only accept the surfer is. Now is the traveler would like to participate as a site. Facebook fulfill that desire. "

Why pursue Facebook My Space, the largest social networking site in the world before April 2008? The situation has changed even, Facebook is no longer as two numbers written on the site Techcrunch.

Site Mashable (The Social Media Guide) states, Facebook design more comfortable and explore views and offer things more real. For example, Facebook offers the other person about you like to add-in (added) so a friend. My Space also offers you some friends, but it offers including those from the land of bran berantah become a friend.

No matter what the background of Facebook, Zuckerberg is the name melejit to the world such as meteor. Many Facebook users, which is the world's elite. Facebook is also a means of communication Toyota employees, Ernst & Young, companies and other world caliber.

Who Zuckerberg? He is a young man aged 25 years and still single, the information technology as well as spirited young entrepreneur. While studying at Harvard University in 2004, he created the Facebook with friends, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Hughes then recruited while Obama is still a presidential candidate to make the website barackobama.com.

In Facebook, Zuckerberg is responsible for general policy matters and the preparation of the strategy the company has become a bone of advertisers and investors.

Zuckerberg has got nickname as "one of the most influential people in the year 2008" version of Time magazine. At the Davos Economic Forum in 2009, Zuckerberg is included in the list of young leaders for achievement and commitment to the community and potentially contribute ideas to shape a new world order.

Youth sessions that appear in the "upcoming Digital Experience" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Other participants who attended, among others, Chad Hurley (YouTube), Craig Mundie (Microsoft), Shananu Narayen (Adobe), Hamid Akhvan (T-Mobile), and Eric Clemmons (Wharton).

One of the interesting points that Zuckerberg is given that more than 100 million people actively using the application on the Facebook move. Facebook iPhone only has 5 million active monthly users, and Facebook for Blackberry has 3.25 million active monthly users.

Zuckerberg on Facebook pace melesat such as rocket. In February 2004 when Zuckerberg launched the program, the students in the U.S. to open direct accounts at Facebook and word of mouth to spread away to schools and other universities.

Zuckerberg and his team was then moved to Palo Alto, California, and investors began to embrace, as the founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, and founder of Napster, Sean Parker.

In August 2005, officially named Zuckerberg Facebook company. After successfully collecting capital 12.7 million U.S. dollars, he developed the company to the next level. That site is consistent and gradually expand the network.

There are currently more than 175 million active users with a range of facilities on the site. Facebook has become the site of the four most frequently visited in the world.

"Thieves"

Zuckerberg, of course, success at the same time with controversy. Some school friends accuse him steal the idea for ConnectU Facebook. However, the claim concerning the court rejected. Cause a furor because he was considered "selling" the data owner's private account, without the respect of privacy.

In 2006, Zuckerberg surprise as the world turn Yahoo bid to buy Facebook worth 1 billion U.S. dollars (or around Rp 12 trillion). A year later, Microsoft purchased 1.6 percent of Facebook shares worth 240 million U.S. dollars. Now Facebook economic value estimated at 15 billion U.S. dollars.

Zuckerberg, who was born from the family doctor who has a rich 20 percent share in Facebook is worth 3 billion U.S. dollars. Forbes magazine miliuner declare Zuckerberg as "self made" termuda on the planet.

However, do not ask questions with regard to private life, not much is known. Know, in high school when he was already dealing with computer issues. When he wanted to help the network owned by his father to be found through the virtual world.

This habit continued and he forgot viscous learning. Because the computer business and information technology this is he drop-out from Harvard.

Whether fraudulent or not, Facebook is now swamped with money. "Also surprising, as many bids come," said Zuckerberg to Techcrunch on 7 December 2008.

Not many other sentences in addition to Zuckerberg's ambition is to make Facebook continues to be comfortable may be a tool unifier of the world. "Did we have a site, which make you feel more comfortable using it?" Said Zuckerberg.


Joice Tauris Santi dan Simon Saragih
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