Dear blogger ;
Almost everybody who have an e-mail account today, will also have a facebook account.
Everybody also known that Mark Zuckerberg ( born at May 14th 1984 ) is the creator of this facebook.
How it start ?
Back to October 2003 when he was at Harvard ( a second year student ), he create Facemash together with 2 of his roommate Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. This network wash originally created as a way to forget the girl he like.
With the support of his friends at the college at September 2006 the Facemash become a Facebook and open for any e-mail owners above 13 years old. For the next year this site jump from no 60 to no 7 of the most hits sites.
Microsoft interesting at this phenomena and bought 1,6% of Facebook share for 240 million US Dollar. At the end of 2007 a Hongkong businessman Li Ka-Shing also invested another 60 million US Dollar to the company Mark owned.
Today, the value of Mark Zuckerber company is estimated around 5 billion US Dollar with 30 %o of it is his personal share.
He is number 785 of the richest man for 2008. It made him the youngest billionaire ( not came from heritage ) for the entire history. Facebook itself had been translated to about 30 languages dan about 150 million of active users all over the world. For Indonesia , probably around 1,3 million people use Facebook everyday.
The Facebook phenomenon is also triggered the birth of Tweeter. A new genre of social networking that focus on the question : "What is you doing at the moment ? "
Regards ;
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