Here are some interesting things you wanted to know about FACEBOOK and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is also named as the "World's youngest self-made billionaire" by Forbes .* Mark Elliot Zuckerberg launched facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004.
* Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and was enrolled in the class of 2006.
* "The Facebook",was originally located at thefacebook.com, in February 2004. Later dropped 'The' from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005.
* On September 5, 2006, Facebook launched News Feed, a list of what friends were doing on the site.
* Microsoft announced on October 24, 2007 that it purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $246 million.
* In March 2008, Forbes.com ranked Zuckerberg as #785 on its rich list, citing his net worth as $1.5 billion.
* Facebook has won the People's Voice Award" from the Webby Awards in 2008.
* Facebook has more than 70 million active users worldwide.
Some controvercies :
* Zuckerberg's Harvard classmates, Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, claim they hired him to finish the code on their website, ConnectU and that he stole their idea, design, business plan, and source code.
* E-mails verified by the Chicago Tribune suggest that Zuckerberg might have taken many ideas for Facebook from Aaron J. Greenspan's houseSYSTEM website.
