Would you give up your friendship for a billion dollar company? Well, Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, did it. Mark Zuckerberg seems like an ordinary young man in his twenties, but he is the world's youngest billionaire; with a fortune estimated at $30 billion. Facebook, a popular global website, is the reason. Mark created Facebook while a student at Harvard University, aged 19. This is the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, how it was conceived and what it will become. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains. New York but grew up in Dobbs Ferry, a small town in New York. Edward Zuckerberg, Mark's father, is a dentist and his mother, Karen, a psychiatrist. Mark has three sisters; Arielle, Randi and Donna Zuckerberg. Mark got his first computer, an Atari 800 with a programming disk, when he was 10 years old. Although Ed taught him Atari BASIC programming, Mark mostly taught himself. Mark's parents hired David Newman, a software engineer, to tutor him in computer science. Soon, Newman and his parents realized that he was a genius at computer programming. Mark's parents then purchased a new computer, a Quantex 486DX running Windows 3.1, and began programming his new computer. Mark attended public schools throughout his elementary, middle, and first two years of high school. He attended Ardsley High School, where he was extremely talented in science and mathematics. Unfortunately, Ardsley was not at his level of expertise, so Mark transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, an expensive private school located in New Hampshire. There, Mark studied mathematics and science and was captain of the fencing team, a sport in which he excelled. While still in high school, he made a program, with Adam D'Angelo, called Syn...... middle of paper ......010 Person of the Year "For connecting more than “Half a billion people and mapped the social relationships between them, to create a new system of information exchange and to change the way we live our lives” -TIME Magazine cover page In 2011, Mark's Facebook. and Daniel Ek's Spotify teamed up so people could be served music through their Facebook profile On May 19, 2012, Mark married Priscilla Chan, whom he met during his years at Harvard Mark launched a new. project in August 2013, called internet.org The goal of Internet.org is to make access to data and the Internet affordable for global communication. Mark continues to work on this project similar to that of Bill Gates. the goal is to make computers available worldwide On March 25 this year, Mark announced that he recently purchased Oculus Rift VR, a virtual reality technology headset for $2 billion...