Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg subsequently settling. Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better". On October 1 2012 Zuckerberg visited Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow to stimulate social media innovation in Russia and to boost Facebook’s position in the Russian market.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. Born and raised in New York state Zuckerberg began writing software as a hobby in middle school with help from his father and a tutor (who called him a prodigy).