Mark+Zuckerberg

**__Mark Zuckerberg__** //E////arly Life// **Mark was born on May 14, 1984 in Dobbs Ferry, New York. His father Edward Zuckerberg ran a dental practice attached to family home. Karen, His mother was a ****psychiatrist**. **Before the birth of their four children**,**Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle****. Mark developed a interest in computers at a young age. At the age of 12, he used "** **Atari BASIC" to design a messaging program he named "Zucknet". His father also used it in his dental practice.He also created games just for fun. "I had a bunch of friends who were artists," he said. "They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it." Mark said. **



//Beginning of Facebook!// **Facebook came into mind when they created a site for the Harvard students called 'Harvard Connection". Then** **Mark and his friends created a site** **where people could create their own profiles, upload pictures, and talk with other users. They was no problems into making it. Mark knew a lot about computers and so did his friends. It was first called "The Facebook". They ran The Facebook out of a dorm room at Harvard until June 2004. After his sophomore year he dropped out and devoted to Facebook full time. By the end of 2004 Facebook had 1 million users. By ****December 2005 Facebook had 5.5 million users.**

//When Mark was sued!//
 * Mark was sued because the creator of Harvard connection said he stole his idea and him to pay their for their business. Mark said that it was completely two different types of social networking sites. Lawyer searched his records and after they decided that Mark may have intentionally stolen the property of the Harvard Connections and offered Facebook users private information to his friends. He later apologized. But he had to pay 65 million dollars. **

//Facebook Today!! // **What is Facebook like today? Currently their are +400,000,000 active users. More than 35,000,000 update their status everyday. More than 3,000,000,000 photos are uploaded to the website every month. There are more than 5,000,000,000 pieces of content such as web links, news stories, blog post, notes, photo albums, and more shared each week. The average user has 130 friends. and more than 65,000,000 users access Facebook through their mobile devices.**   //Mark's Invention!// **The invention Mark invented is called Facebook. It was invented the 4th of February in 2004 and was at first called, "thefacebook.com". It will never be fully invented because it will constantly be updated. The idea came when he designed a website for students at Harvard. Some problems with include Mark being accused of stealing the idea from three Harvard seniors. This website impacts everything stated above, it helps everyone keep up to date with each other.**

 [] Crum, Chris. "How Over 400 Million People Use Facebook." //Webpronews.com//. Web Pro News, 9 Mar. 2010. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. <http://www.webpronews.com/how-over-400-million-people-use-facebook-2010-02>. Chris Crums wrote the article. This website gave me helpful information about Facebook today. Some of the information includes what happens everyday, month, and records of what happens. Zuckerberg, Mark. "Mark Zuckerberg | Facebook." //Facebook//. Facebook, Inc., 4 Feb. 2004. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. <http://www.facebook.com/zuck>. The creator of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg. I used the information from his profile. This is where i got information about his sports and education.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carlson, Nicholas. "How Facebook Was Founded." //Businessinsider.com//. GODADDY.com, Inc., 6 Mar. 1998. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. <http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3>.Nicholas Carlson created the article. The information found on this article was about when Facebook was founded. The purpose of the website is to help keep people up to date.