He started out as a college sophomore, threatened with
expulsion (and a lot of other bad things) for hacking into Harvard’s computer
system and making private student ID photos public. Today Mark Zuckerberg is
the sixth richest man on Earth. It’s something I think no one anticipated
twelve years ago today, when Facebook was launched. It was called “The Facebook”
then, and was originally for Harvard students. Today there are more than one
and a half billion active users, and we’re addicted. We can’t imagine life
without it. As Entertainment Weekly put it, "How on earth
did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and
play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" We even let it steal
our sleep. If you check Facebook more than once a day, chances are you’re an
insomniac. By the way, if you’re reading this between midnight and 5:00 a.m., turn off your screen and go back to bed.
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