Unit 1: Social Networks (1ère Générale)

 The Rise of Facebook

The document under study is an extract from an article taken from Time Magazine, published in 2010, written by L. Grossman. It is about Mark Zuckerberg who was elected person of the year.

We have learned that Facebook was originally created in 2004, its name was “thefacebook.com”. Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old student at Harvard at the time and was in his dorm when he created it. The goal was to create a social networking site to connect the students of Harvard together.

He was elected Person of the Year because he was the author of a new creation that could connect more than half billion people together. Moreover, it was a new system of exchanging information worldwide. It completely transformed our lives.

Zuckerberg is one of the main pioneers of world virtualization, in fact, he created a social media platform that changed our routine, our way of thinking. In addition, social networks help us in our daily lives on an economic aspect, advertising, job search… Additionally, it is one of the most technological progress in our human history.

Nowadays, Facebook is a leading social networking site, which is still mainly used worldwide.

Homework: Learn the lesson.