The Face of Facebook

Letter from Palo Alto The Face of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg opens up.  by Jose
Antonio Vargas<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/jose_antonio_vargas/search?contributorName=jose%20antonio%20vargas><http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas#ixzz0zVicT4w3>

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago.
Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and
seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of the world’s
people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities. You
sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs,
employment history, why you are peeved right now with the gummy-bear
selection at Rite Aid or bullish about prospects for peace in the Middle
East. Some of the information can be seen only by your friends; some is
available to friends of friends; some is available to anyone. Facebook’s
privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed
them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in
more ways.

According to his Facebook profile, Zuckerberg has three sisters (Randi,
Donna, and Arielle), all of whom he’s friends with. He’s friends with his
parents, Karen and Edward Zuckerberg. He graduated from Phillips Exeter
Academy and attended Harvard University. He’s a fan of the comedian Andy
Samberg and counts among his favorite musicians Green Day, Jay-Z, Taylor
Swift, and Shakira. He is twenty-six years old.

Zuckerberg cites “Minimalism,” “Revolutions,” and “Eliminating Desire” as
interests. He likes “Ender’s Game,” a coming-of-age science-fiction saga by
Orson Scott Card, which tells the story of Andrew (Ender) Wiggin, a gifted
child who masters computer war games and later realizes that he’s involved
in a real war. He lists no other books on his profile.

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