✌ I remember getting my Facebook when I as a freshman in college. It trumped myspace and I shortly got rid of my myspace. I am a busy Junior in college and to think that Zuckerberg was only 22 at the time he created the site in his dorm room is crazy. The site became a phenomenon across the world. I look at people's MySpace sites now and it is funny to see how much they have changed to resemble Facebook.
✌ Reading the article "The Battle for Facebook" creator Mark Zuckerberg seems cocky. The fact he lost a lot of his friends, including his roommate, because of this site he created shows he is in fact too into becoming successful. Zuckerberg continuously states that it was not for the money when he created this site, but after reading how many people he "burned" along the way, I can't help but think that a lot of it was to do with money. He asked for others ideas, specifically Greenspan, but ended up losing those people as friends and even people to collaborate with on the project. While reading the article, I thought Zuckerberg would remain working with Parker, co-founder of Napster, he made Parker look like a bad business man. I feel like after reading this article, that despite the fact that Zuckerberg is very intelligent, he used other people for ideas to make Facebook what it is today.
✌ Also, after reading this article, Zuckerberg reminded me of Marcus in Little Brother. Zuckerberg's "reputation on campus as a renegade programer was cemented" (Hoffman 3). Just like Marcus was known as a computer junkie creating programs and software, Zuckerberg was known to those at Harvard as the same. He was "nerd like" and hacking into illegal documents just as Marcus did.
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