7 Things You Did not Know Facebook - La Vanguardia

A young Harvard students who wanted more transparency in red-and probably more-established link the social network that allows anyone to display their profile. Today all are billionaires thanks to his invention: Facebook. Likewise your birth was unconventional, it has not been their history, and the history of its initiators. These are some of the least known of all curiosities.

A web copyright. When Mark Zuckerberg created Thefacebook (primal version of Facebook) in 2004, all of the web pages were signed “A Mark Zuckerberg production” (“A production Mark Zuckerberg “), as if it were a movie. I wanted to make it very clear that he was the author of the idea. In fact, in typical page of “who we are” defined itself as “the Boss, lord and master, enemy of the state”.

Hormones university. From the beginning of Thefacebook at Harvard, its users find that one of its main uses was to facilitate flirting. Upon entering the network at once asked you if you were “interested” in men or women. You got the option to indicate whether they had any relationship and could fill a section called “Searching”. And there was the option of “a touch” someone and he or she will correspond with another touch. This interaction was, for many of those who practiced regularly, clearly sexual meaning. As David Kirkpatrick writes biographer Facebook, “the end of the day, we were in college.”

A blow foil Although Mark Zuckerberg seems shy and introverted reserves his best shots. was a big fan of fencing had been captain and team member remarkable discipline in school and , when he moved from Harvard to California to ride Facebook more seriously, one of the few personal belongings they took with him was his foil. In the rented house he and the other founders in Palo Alto and it was his work center, used to walk up and down in the discussion, with the foil in one hand and the other behind his back, throwing lunges into the air. “You’re going to break something!” Shouted desperate Mokovitz Dustin, one of his early partners.

An unconventional company. When, as in California, the company began to grow unstoppably, the company needed to hire more staff. Zuckerberg and his cronies, the rebellious nature that printed them their youth, did not hesitate to apply unconventional techniques. For example, drew on the door of the house that occupied the wooden figure of an Italian chef holding a blackboard, like the ones at the door of the restaurants. Rather than announcing the day’s menu, the text is read in the belly of the plump chef was “Wanted vice president of engineering.” Lack of staff was in fact an endemic problem and once that time counted by the person who managed the questions users had a queue of pending queries answered 75,000 …

Exile gold in Singapore. Eduardo Saverin, Zuckerberg Brazilian friend at Harvard who conceived with Facebook and then claimed compensation receiving a millionaire, decided in 2011 to renounce U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of Singapore, where he plans to live “for an indefinite period of time.” He did it for tax reasons and apparently to pay less tax when Facebook went public and he sells packets of shares. This step was criticized by some American media, which saw it as nothing short of a betrayal of the country that made him rich.

The wayward sister . Zuckerberg has not only had many legal problems in the plagiarism of the idea of ??Facebook. They have also increased the problems in the house, as he had to give a job to his sister Randi (two years older than him), who also showed some unusual craving for notoriety and eventually have a showdown with a user who submitted a photo to twitter in which the whole family Zuckerberg looked in the kitchen, in the top image should only see Randi’s friends. The controversy ended with the sister outside the company, and has now created its own social network and has written a book.

Learning Chinese. Zuckerberg tried to learn Chinese a few years ago and, to practice, spent time with Facebook employees whose native language was Mandarin. On one occasion, one of the partners participating in the meeting tried to tell something was happening with their immediate superior. Zuckerberg did not understand and asked “Simpler, please.” She tried to simplify the explanation, but without success. Zuckerberg insisted that it said more simply, but still failed to understand. After several unsuccessful attempts, the employee ended up getting nervous and simply shout: “My boss is bad!”, Thinking he would not understand. But the phrase itself was so simple that the realized, so that the master of Facebook learned of the problem in all its rawness. Surely Zuckerberg can now save these problems and take Mandarin classes at home, because in 2012 he married his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, who is of Chinese descent.