Jan. 13, 2008
The Face Behind Facebook
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The Face Behind Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg is said to be worth $3 billion for founding the social networking Web site Facebook. Lesley Stahl talks to the man whose $15 billion company could be the next Google.
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Mr. Facebook's Personal Page
What's on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's personal page? Lesley Stahl got a sneak peek when she interviewed him in Palo Alto.
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Kara Swisher On Facebook
Blogger, and sometime Facebook critic, Kara Swisher actually has a page on Facebook. She shares her likes and dislikes of the service and the company behind it.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (CBS)
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"Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies"
by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
If you're not on Facebook, here's how it works: you set up a profile page with details about yourself and then decide who gets to see it. Friends use their pages to share personal news, exchange photos, team up on political causes, or just play long-distance Scrabble. It can be a useful tool or an addictive waste of time. Either way, Facebook is having a dramatic impact on the World Wide Web and it's estimated to be worth $15 billion.
As Lesley Stahl reports, sitting atop this growing company and directing an Internet revolution is a young, geeky computer programmer who created the site only four years ago.
The face of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg, the mogul who's guiding its extraordinary growth. What everyone wants to know is: Is he old enough to be running a company some people say is the biggest thing since Google?
"I'm 23 right now," Zuckerberg tells Stahl when asked how old he is.
"And you're running this huge company," Stahl remarks.
"It's not that big," Zuckerberg says.
During her visit to Facebook's headquarters, Zuckerberg helped Stahl set up her own Facebook page, with a profile of her likes and dislikes. They added her friends and family, and within a few minutes, she got a friend request.
"Here's a guy I haven't talked to in two years and I'm so thrilled to hear from him," Stahl remarks.
This is why so many find the site addictive. In a world with no cell phone or e-mail directories, Facebook has become a way to find lost friends.
"It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs. And then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job. Just 'cause it was too hard," Zuckerberg explains. "But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people."
Of course, if someone tries to "friend" you, you can ignore them. And privacy settings allow you to deny access to your page say, to your boss or your parents.
Facebook's headquarters in downtown Palo Alto look like a dorm room; the 400 employees, who get free food and laundry, show up late, stay late, and party really late.
Zuckerberg, who's made the cover of Newsweek and is reportedly worth $3 billion, sits at a desk like the other software engineers, writing computer code.
"Have you changed your lifestyle? You don't look like you're buyin' really expensive clothes," Stahl asks Zuckerberg, who showed up to the interview in a sweatshirt and sandals.
"No, I'm not buying really expensive clothes," Zuckerberg replies, laughing.
"Are you buying things that you would be…," Stahl asks.
"Yeah. No, I have a little, like one bedroom apartment with a mattress on the floor. That's where I live," Zuckerberg says.
Kara Swisher, who used to write about Silicon Valley for The Wall Street Journal and now has a blog, All Things Digital, has called him "The Toddler CEO."
"What do you think it's done to him, as a person, to be 23 years old…," Stahl asks.
"Well, I think it's hard. I think when all of a sudden you're the smartest person in the world, and you're the meal ticket for everybody, and this is the big hit. This is the new Google at this point," Swisher says. "And so Mark is under a lot of pressure, because everybody wants something from him."
Like the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg is looked up to in Silicon Valley as a visionary.
"You seem to be replacing Larry and Sergey as the people out here who everyone's talking about," Stahl remarks. Zuckerberg doesn't reply, only stares at her at length.
"You're just staring at me," she adds.
"Is that a question?" Zuckerberg asks.
We were warned that he can be awkward and reluctant to talk about himself, so we turned for help to his Facebook page, which says he's a Harvard alum.
"You're not a Harvard alum," Stahl remarks, looking at his own list of networks.
"That's true. We don't have a setting for dropout," Zuckerberg explains.
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See all 125 CommentsThe funniest part was when a little stuck-up, spoiled, stupid, arrogant and "amazing" college student I know graduated, and suddenly wasn''t so welcome on "amazing" facebook with her spoiled little "amazing" friends. Now she is working for the corporations, like a a dog, at their beck and call, a meaningless part of a hostile, meaningless system, not so "amazing" is it, white trash.
:) nmw
Frustrated System Administrator
It sounds to me like folks need to be more cautious about the things they choose to post online, but then again, that''s anywhere online, not just Facebook.
so i had to create a new account, and get all my lost stuff back to my new one.
[Posted by KR0523 at 07:28 PM : Jan 13, 2008]
the exploitation is not being done by him ... so why would he need a good attorney?
he built a web site ... why should he be liable for what others do using it?
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
Forgive me, but to call it a "prank" is a tad light-hearted.
Forgive me if I never use their site. The internet is bad enough with illegitimate ID thieves than to sign up for a legitimized one.
The moral of the story is: Drop out of school, break the rules as big as you like, and you''ll become rich. WWJD?
Forgive me, but to call it a "prank" is a tad light-hearted.
Forgive me if I never use their site. The internet is bad enough with illegitimate ID thieves than to sign up for a legitimized one.
The moral of the story is: Drop out of school, break the rules as big as you like, and you''ll become rich. WWJD?
Forgive me, but to call it a "prank" is a tad light-hearted.
Forgive me if I never use their site. The internet is bad enough with illegitimate ID thieves than to sign up for a legitimized one.
The moral of the story is: Drop out of school, break the rules as big as you like, and you''ll become rich. WWJD?
Forgive me, but to call it a "prank" is a tad light-hearted.
Forgive me if I never use their site. The internet is bad enough with illegitimate ID thieves than to sign up for a legitimized one.
The moral of the story is: Drop out of school, break the rules as big as you like, and you''ll become rich. WWJD?
Forgive me, but to call it a "prank" is a tad light-hearted.
Forgive me if I never use their site. The internet is bad enough with illegitimate ID thieves than to sign up for a legitimized one.
The moral of the story is: Drop out of school, break the rules as big as you like, and you''ll become rich. WWJD?
Forgive me, but to call it a "prank" is a tad light-hearted.
Forgive me if I never use their site. The internet is bad enough with illegitimate ID thieves than to sign up for a legitimized one.
The moral of the story is: Drop out of school, break the rules as big as you like, and you''ll become rich. WWJD?
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
I see that someone already posted about this, but to go into further detail about the word alumnus, or alum
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Hey how about that INMATE!!.
Leslie most likely has her Masters in Communication, and here is this Harvard Dropout, worth 100 times her total wealth, and she is trying to correct him, and she was wrong to begin with.
Another Harvard Drop out who is an Alum is Billy, BAD BREATH, Gates, you may have heard of him (Microsoft?)
My wife told me I was wrong till I showed her in the dictionary, then she informed me that the professors at UCONN told her that only College Grads were considered ALUMs, guess no one showed them a dictionary.
Lets fact check before we insult young impressionable 23 year old BILLIONAIRES.
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