Interesting Facts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

With more than 750 million active users in March 2011, Facebook, launched in February 2004, has become the most popular social networking website on globe. After a rather long-time existing, Facebook has upgraded lots of useful applications. Via Facebook, users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to identify friends about themselves. In addition, users can participate in networks organized by workplace, school, or college. Despite the reputation and worldwide development of Facebook, there is something secret about Facebook's owner, Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg, fully named Mark Elliot "Zuck" Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. The 26-year-old man is an American businessman, CEO & President of the social networking site Facebook. While attending Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg and his classmates including Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes co-founded Facebook. And he is famous for his giant investment to the share of Facebook, up to 24%. However, behind Facebook, there are the following interesting and little-known facts about Mark Zuckerberg- the co-founder, CEO & President of the social networking site Facebook.

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 1) He's only five foot eight, but looks taller because he stands up very straight.
 2)The 26-year-old guy was voted among the "world\'s 50 most influential figures" by New Statesman's annual survey 2010
 
3)The co-founder,CEO & President of Facebook does not care about money. He denied a 1 billion dollar offering to sell Facebook. This is his baby, he wants to keep running and keep growing it
 4)Mark Zuckerberg has several nicknames. "Zuck" called by Friends and co-workers is his nickname on the Facebook Blog. His mother often call him "Princely". "Slayer" was his name at Harvard University
 5)In real life, Mark Zuckerberg is always shy and reserved although he is trying to make the world a more open by helping people connect and share
6)Mark Zuckerberg was born and grown up in White Plains, New York, then he graduated from Philips Exeter Academy high school. At his school, he studied Latin and has loved classic style since then
7)Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. Blue is the color he see best; therefore, the predominant color on all Facebook pages is blue
 
8)Zuckberberg was ranked No.1 on the list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age" by Vanity Fair 2010

9)Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the Newark, New Jersey school system on September 22, 2010. This event will be reported in The Social Network movie

10)He has been in a long-term relationship with Priscilla Chan, who is taking a medical degree and hopes to be a pediatrician, since meeting her at a Friday night party at the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi where he was carrying beer glasses which said #include beer.h.

11) His father is a dentist whose website says "we cater for cowards".

12) So that his father could be notified when there was a patient in the waiting room downstairs in the dentist practice attached to the house, he created a network. He called it ZuckNet.

13) While he was still in high school (equivalent to secondary school in the UK) he wrote a program that would recommend music based on what you liked.

14) He was approached by Microsoft, which was interested in buying it, but he declined.

15) He is not (contrary to the film's claim) the youngest billionaire; that credit actually goes to Dustin Moskovitz, who is eight days younger than Zuckerberg and was one of his roommates - and co-founders of Facebook - at Harvard University.

16) Moskovitz is a billionaire (worth $1.4bn) solely by virtue of the estimated value of Facebook shares ($76 on the unofficial "aftermarket"): he owns a slew of them.

17) Zuckerberg's favourite film director on his Facebook page is Aaron Sorkin.

18) Or was, until he found out that Sorkin had written The Social Network. Then Sorkin's name went away.
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