The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook (Pg. 40-80)

Summary
After a disappointing night of drinking, Mark decides to put his plan into action.  He burns through the night hacking into each of Harvard's house's facebook. He effortlessly makes his way into the unprotected systems and downloads every single picture of the students. While doing so, he is updating his blog about all the things he's doing. His plan was to create a website to allow people to compare two girls and pick the more attractive one. The original idea was to compare them to farm animals. The name of the site was facemash.com.

For the houses he couldn't get into, Mark sneaks in after the janitor leaves. He discovers a couple doing...things couples do and hides behind a couch until they leave, before hacking into the system and downloading the rest of the pictures to his laptop. As he is downloading the pictures, he goes over legal rights over his head and justifies it by saying it's information to share and "for the greater good". A few days later, thinking about all the feedback he would get after he officially launched facemash, he comes home to his dorm and sees that his laptop is frozen and it is acting as a server for facemash. He knew he was in trouble after the site hit over 22,000 hits in 20 minutes.

News got out and facemash even made it onto the Crimson, the school newspaper.  Divya brings this to the attention of the Winklevosses and they plan to approach Mark later to ask if "he wanted to be part of history".

Mark's punishment was not met with any less than 3 deans.  Though, his punishment was not in case, severe, because apparently they knew from Mark's awkwardness that he meant no harm. And for that, he sent off with a warning that if he ever did it again, he would be in big trouble.  After his punishment, he meets up with Eduardo and shows him an email he received from Divya, that asked him to join their team to write the code and program for the Harvard Connection. The next day, the team meets him in person and he volunteers to do the job.  His facial expressions did not show any excitement, but Mark was very interested in doing this for the thrill of being in control again.

Quote
"Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes." (Mezrich 49)

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Up to what I read, I never really imagined Mark Zuckerberg as someone who would write a website for socializing or a social network in general. Sure, he wasn't exactly a social butterfly or really expressed any emotions, but he did have a more of a voice while blogging. It's also very interesting how an antisocial person would create the biggest social network.