Mark  Elliot Zuckerberg  is an American  famous  computer   programmer  and also Internet Entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site Facebook. He was born on May 14,1984 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, into a comfortable, well-educated family. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family`s home, his mother Karen worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple’s four children-Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle. Zuckerberg had an interest in computers at an early age, when he was about 12. His first thing that he created was messaging program that he used Atari BASIC to create it, and he named it “Zucknet.” His father was the first person who used it in his dental office,  so  the receptionist could inform him of a new patient without coming to the room every time. Zucknet was also used by his family within the house to communicate. Actually his father taught him how to use Atari BASIC.  He did not stop in this achievement, together with his friends; he also created computer games just for fun.

Understanding people is not a waste of time

(Mark Zuckerberg) 

   Zuckerberg studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, and exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire. He was so talented student, and he showed his talent in fencing, becoming the captain of the school`s team. He also excelled in literature, earning a diploma in classics. He was not only a good student, he at the same time continued to work on developing new programs. While in high school, he created an early version of the music software Pandora, which he called Synapse. Several companies-including  AOL and Microsoft-expressed an interest in buying the software, and hiring the teenager before graduation, however he declined the offers. In 2002 Zuckerberg graduated from Exeter and enrolled at Harvard University. During his studies he developed a reputation as the go-to-software developer on campus.  At that time he built a program called CourseMAtch, which helped students choose their classes based on the course selections of other users. He also invented Facemash, which compared the pictures of two students on campus and allowed users to vote on which one was more attractive.The program became widely popular but later it was shut down by the school administration after it was deemed inappropriate based on the buzz of the previous projects, three of the fellow students Divya Narendra, and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss-sought him out to work on an idea for a social networking site they called Harvard Connection. This site was created to use information from Harvard`s students in order to make a dating site for the Harvard elite. Zuckerberg agreed to help with the project, but later he dropped out to work on his own social networking site with his friends, and they first called it Facebook, it was launched in February 2004. By the end of the year 2004, Facebook had 1 million users.

Facebook

Zuckerberg`s company granted access to other colleges, high school and international schools, pushing the site`s membership to more than 5.5 million users by December 2005. The the site started to attract the interest of other companies, who wanted to advertise with the popular social hub. But he turned down offers from companies such as Yahoo and MTV Networks. After that he focused more on his site to expand it more and add more interesting features. The best leaders aren't usually the ones with an unbroken string of successes. Rather, they're the ones who know how to survive and even thrive when things go wrong. And the way they learn how to do that is by falling down, struggling for a while, and then figuring out how to get back up. Zuckerberg faced his first huge problems in 2006, the creator of Harvard Connection claimed that Zuckerberg stole their idea, and insisted the software developer needed to pay for their business losses. Zuckerberg maintained that the ideas were based on two very different types of social networks but, after lawyers searched Zuckerberg's records; incriminating Instant Messages revealed that Zuckerberg may have intentionally stolen the intellectual property of Harvard Connection and offered Facebook users' private information to his friends.  Examine his own contribution to Facebook's comedown, instead of blaming others. Zuckerberg has asserted an unusual degree of control at Facebook. He can basically make all the big decisions by himself if he chooses to, completely bypassing his board and his executive team.

  Zuckerberg is an example of a young billionaire who can achieve a lot in this life. He is the youngest billionaire in the world, he created such a wonderful Social Networking site Facebook, and it is one of the most popular site in the world, it helps us a lot in communication with friends and family members. As for me i am a student, and it helps me in communicating with friends and knowing their life style by looking at the pictures. And all these things are showing us how our world is developed. There is no secret of success , the only secret is hard working!