"In Silicon Valley, I don't see anything other than Facebook. That's all, they dominate social media "... —Steve Jobs
The Biography of Mark Zuckerberg
On the Internet, it has been commented that there are three heroes in Silicon Valley: Bill Gates, Jobs and Zuckerberg.
In 2004, at the age of 20, Zuckerberg founded the social networking site Facebook. By 2006, the number of website registrations had exceeded 12 million, and the number of website clicks had reached 22 billion. In 2017, 33-year-old Zuckerberg ranked fifth on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest people for $56 billion.
What is the story behind this number of miracles after another? What kind of genius is Zuckerberg, the "new Caesar king" of the tech world?
Four energetic Harvard programming enthusiasts took advantage of the school's network vulnerability to download the registration photos of all the girls in the school and put them on the social network they created for the whole school to choose the school flowers. As soon as the event was launched, it quickly caused a sensation at Harvard, and everyone rushed to click to enter the website to participate.
Naturally, Mark Zuckerberg, the initiator of the incident, was soon publicly criticized by the school. "
This prank also inspired Zuckerberg: why a simple online on-campus selection will attract so much attention and participation, the answer is of course that everyone needs to communicate with each other, and the desire to interact is realized in this event.
Then, in order to promote more open, authentic, convenient and frequent communication between people. Facebook was born.
Facebook's initial mode of operation was that users uploaded their own personal photos and annotated their own profiles. Sign up to be clear about yourself, including where you grew up, your age, and your hobbies. The website then gives you the right to invite your friends to join in some way.
Such a new type of open-ended dating method was instantly popular at Harvard. Subsequently, other universities and high schools in the United States have also opened their registrations. To further expand Facebook, registration rights were opened to adults in May 2006. By the end of 2006, facebook enrollment had exceeded 12 million.
Facebook's short-term rapid expansion in the market is enough to prove that more convenient and open online social networking is the trend of the times. Facebook is a product of the evolution of the times.
With Facebook's enrollment booming, Zuckerberg needs more money to buy servers and hire talent to develop new features.
In order to gain profits, Zuckerberg had to start selling web advertising space.
Then, Zuckerberg developed the "Instant Photo Tag Friends" and "Dynamic News" functions: according to the user's usual preferences and friends' attention, actively deliver instant information.
Then, in August 2010, Zuckerberg introduced a "like" button. When you "like" a song, a product, or an app, the action is pushed to your friends, and your friends will also browse to the content you liked.
This feature was then used by advertisers to accurately serve users for the purpose of sales.
Facebook's huge user base, coupled with the precise delivery of ads, has brought about a blowout of revenue. In 2011, Facebook's operating income was $3.71 billion, of which advertising revenue was $3.154 billion.
In fact, Zuckerberg has always been very reluctant to peddle advertising space on his own web page, which he feels is not cool, and it is not related to what he pursues: strengthening people's interconnection.
But Zuckerberg also said helplessly in a public statement: Many people think that I don't care about profits, but they are wrong. To achieve success in any sense, profits and profits are indispensable.
"Like" function
Facebook has also experienced several major storms since its inception, all of which are about privacy.
Indeed, Facebook's nominal use of "collecting user data" (including the user's gender, age, place of birth, friend information, and browsing history) to accurately serve ads and news is an invasion of the user's privacy.
We are now inseparable from Wang Kuo. Some people say: there is no privacy on the Internet. Indeed, the speed at which the web evolves may really depend on how quickly you lose your privacy.
What is your view on networking and privacy?
In any case, Zuckerberg has never been a businessman, he is just a genius programmer who sticks to his original intentions.
He also guards his original intention with practical actions: to make the world more open and more connected.
He accomplished a task that had never been attempted before: to connect and socialize more than 500 million people around the world.
Do you have a Facebook account? Do you like this software? Tell us what you think of Facebook!