Mark+Zuckerberg,+Megan+Tholson

Megan Tholson 5-26-12 4G

Mark Zuckerberg



Notes- Day 1
 * 1) Was born May 14, 1984
 * 2) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur
 * 3) He is best known as one of four co-founders of the social networking site Facebook
 * 4) Of which he is chairman and chief executive
 * 5) It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.
 * 6) As of 2012, his personal wealth was estimated at more than $19.1 billion, making him one of the world's youngest billionaires
 * 7) Zuckerberg is one of the 30 richest people on Earth
 * 8) in 2010 as Time magazine's Person of the Year
 * 9) Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with more than 800 million active users around the world, and roughly 200 million in the United States.

Time Line- Day 2

1984 – He was born in White Plains, New York. He was the son of a dentist and psychiatrist (he has three sisters). 2002 – Graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy, a private school in New Hampshire. Mark then joins Harvard University in autumn on a psychology and computer science course. 2003 – Creates Facemash - a web program enabling Harvard students to compare images of same-gender students and rate the more attractive - and nearly gets kicked out when its immediate popularity draws the attention of the university administrators. 2004 – Mark and others begin to work on facebook in February. 2004 – Drops out of Harvard at the end of his sophomore year. 2004 – Facebook reaches 200,000 users contacts in Silicon Valley. He receives an initial investment of half a million dollars 2004-- a small office above a Chinese restaurant 2004 – The Winklevoss twins file a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. 2005 – Facebook hits 5 million users. 2006 – At 22 years of age, Mark turns down $1 billion dollar offer for Facebook from Yahoo. 2007 – Opens Facebook beyond universities so anyone with an email address can join. He turns down a $15 billion offer from Microsoft. 2009 – China blocks domestic access to Facebook. 2010 – Named Time magazine’s person of the year. 2010 – Hollywood movie //The Social Network// is released documenting Zuckerberg's time at Harvard and the early days of Facebook. 2011 – He appears on Saturday Night Live along with Jesse Eisenberg. Jesse played him in the film Social Network. 2011 – Facebook records half a billion users on Facebook in a single day, and is expected to report $4 billion dollars revenue, double that of the previous year. 2012 – Facebook projected to reach 1 billion users.

Day 3-

I think that the 3 most critical events in determining why a person/event is significant is by noticing how they helped shape and create history. I think that Steve Jobs, Angelina Jolie and Mark Zuckerberg are very important people in history because they all were involved in making history and changing are world in effective and ineffective ways. They have either helped kids with poverty in other countries, or have created a site that is crazy popular, or created the company apple that has made the iphone. These are all very important figures in our history.

Day 4-

On the bottom of your Wiki page, rank (in order #1-3) your person and the other two that you critiqued. 1. Steve Jobs 2. Mark Zuckerberg 3. Angelina Jolie The reasons for my ranking is because Steve Jobs chief executive officer of [|Apple Inc.]. I believe he only has pushed America to it's furthest. Then I said Mark Zuckerberg because he created Facebook which is one of the most popular site on the internet. Then lastly I said Angelina Jolie because she has changed America and she is very significant to America, but I feel like she hasn't done as much as other important figures in history.