“I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week.” I think it's kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around to it,” Zuckerberg told the school newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, in 2004. 'Everyone's been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard. Despite threat of expulsion, and anger from students whose faces were used without permission, Zuckerberg went on to establish a digital “face book,” which at the time referred to glorified student directories with photographs.

Today the company is unrecognizable from its humble, grimy origins as a Hot or Not ripoff where Zuckerberg, as a Harvard student in 2003, made a website where users rated the attractiveness of female students. So much has been said about one of the most important movies of the 2010s, but new layers emerge every day.Ī cursory glance at recent news involving Facebook, parent company Meta, and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg results in a miasma of stories loaded with numbing phrases like “class action lawsuit,” “misleading ads,” and, ugh, “the metaverse.” And even amid current financial woes and never-ending political turmoil, Facebook is still one of the largest companies in the world and boasts three billion active users worldwide.

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