

Zuckerberg may seem like an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing. On August 31st at 10:38 P.M., he and his girlfriend were eating dinner at Taqueria La Bamba, in Mountain View.

He was back at Facebook’s headquarters, in Palo Alto, by 7:08 P.M. At 2:45 A.M., E.S.T., on August 29th, he was at the Ace Hotel, in New York’s garment district. Since late August, it’s also been pretty easy to track Zuckerberg through a new Facebook feature called Places, which allows users to mark their location at any time. Soon afterward, Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page, “Is there a site that streams the World Cup final online? (I don’t own a TV.)” They know that, in early July, upon returning from the annual Allen & Company retreat for Hollywood moguls, Wall Street tycoons, and tech titans, he became Facebook friends with Barry Diller. They can browse his photograph albums, like one titled “The Great Goat Roast of 2009,” a record of an event held in his back yard. Zuckerberg’s Facebook friends have access to his e-mail address and his cell-phone number. He likes “Ender’s Game,” a coming-of-age science-fiction saga by Orson Scott Card, which tells the story of Andrew (Ender) Wiggin, a gifted child who masters computer war games and later realizes that he’s involved in a real war. Zuckerberg cites “Minimalism,” “Revolutions,” and “Eliminating Desire” as interests. He’s a fan of the comedian Andy Samberg and counts among his favorite musicians Green Day, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, and Shakira. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and attended Harvard University. He’s friends with his parents, Karen and Edward Zuckerberg. Facebook’s privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.Īccording to his Facebook profile, Zuckerberg has three sisters (Randi, Donna, and Arielle), all of whom he’s friends with. Some of the information can be seen only by your friends some is available to friends of friends some is available to anyone.

You sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs, employment history, why you are peeved right now with the gummy-bear selection at Rite Aid or bullish about prospects for peace in the Middle East. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. of Facebook wants to create, and dominate, a new kind of Internet.
