Article: “Facebook Turns 5 – but can it Survive?”
Author: Simon Hooper
The article “Facebook Turns 5 – but can it Survive?” begins by telling how Facebook came about. Mark Zuckerberg is a genius who created this billion dollar website out of his dorm room when he was 19 years old. This was five years ago when he was a student at Harvard University. Within 24 hours of creating this website there were over 1,000 other Harvard classmates that had already joined the website and within a month nearly the half the University had become a member. Mark Zuckerberg is now only 24 and one of the richest men in the world. His site is valued at over 15 billion dollars and he is considered one of the Top 100 most influential people of 2008. The question being asked is if the website will always be this valuable. A writer in Fortune magazine thinks the website might not be around too much longer if things don’t begin to change. He admits that is does bring in advertisements and a good amount of money but it is nothing compared to Microsoft, Google, or even MySpace which is their largest competitor. The Fortune magazine writer thinks it is great idea that needs to change because it has been the same for over five years now. Mark Zuckerberg assures him that the website will remain up to speed and will survive.
I think Facebook is a great website that has been the same for a while. The article is very interesting in giving some background information that I wasn’t aware of before. I had no idea that the creator was a 19 year old man that became a millionaire within a month and a billionaire within a few years. I do think he will keep the website up to speed with the other competitors. If the man is smart enough to create this website when he is 19 years old I think he is definitely smart enough to keep it up to date with the competitors.
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