COLLEGE LIFE:
He studied psychology and computer science as well as belonging to Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity, and Kirkland House. A short time later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select the best looking person from a choice of photos. According to Zuckerberg`s roommate at the time, Arie Hasit, "he built the site for fun".
We had books called Face Books, which included the names and pictures of everyone who lived in the student dorms. At first, he built a site and placed two pictures, or pictures of two males and two females. Visitors to the site had to choose who was "hotter" and according to the votes there would be a ranking.
The site went up over a weekend. the college shut it down because its popularity had overwhelmed one of Harvard`s network switches and prevented students from accessing the Internet. In addition, many students complained that their photos were being used without permission.
The following semester, in January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website.[26] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.
CARRER:
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004.
A month after Facebook launched in February 2004, i2hub, another campus-only service, created by Wayne Chang, was launched. i2hub focused on peer-to-peer file sharing. At the time, both i2hub and Facebook were gaining the attention of the press and growing rapidly in users and publicity.
On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. It grew to more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.Internet.org will also create new jobs and open up new markets. On May 19, 2010, Facebook`s website was temporarily blocked in Pakistan until Facebook removed the contest from its website at the end of May.
In June 2010, Paul Ceglia, the owner of a wood pellet fuel company in Allegany County, upstate New York, filed suit against Zuckerberg, claiming 84% ownership of Facebook and seeking monetary damages. According to Ceglia, he and Zuckerberg signed a contract on April 28, 2003, that an initial fee of $1,000 entitled Ceglia to 50% of the website`s revenue, as well as an additional 1% interest in the business per day after January 1, 2004, until website completion.
Zuckerberg voiced himself on an episode of The Simpsons titled "Loan-a Lisa", which first aired on October 3, 2010.On October 9, 2010, Saturday Night Live lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook
Zuckerberg created an account with Google+ soon after the social network was unveiled, saying he sees it as a "validation for his vision" of online social networking. By July 2011, Zuckerberg had become the most followed user on Google+.