Mark Zuckerberg

Who out there hasn’t heard of the insanely popular social network that is called Facebook? Everyone has, am I right? Well thanks to one extremely creative genius we have this incredibly easy way to keep up with our friends. But what is it that makes someone a creative genius exactly? First we must determine what it means to be creative. With lots of thought and consideration I have found that creativity is the amount of ideas, imagination, and inspiration awarded to a person at birth. It is a concept that is limitless and intangible and is totally unique to each person. Being a creative, original person means that you must come up with an idea on your own, creating something that no one has thought up or claimed before. This idea must come from inside and in the case of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, it can grow to be something more than you could ever imagine. The Facebook sensation started out at HarvardUniversity when Mark designed a program from his dorm room called Face Mash. The purpose of this program was for his fellow classmates to judge other students based on their appearance. It didn’t take long for the site to be shut down but either way Face Mash was just the beginning. Face Mash was just the seed of what became the Facebook take over . Mark’s youthful knowledge of how students would like to communicate combined with his wisdom of computer programming gave him the creative ability to come up with what is biggest social network on the internet. Now let’s talk a little bit as to why we see Mark as a genius. Is it because of his success of becoming a billionaire or is it because he was so intellegent? I see it as though if Facebook had not become as popular as it has that we would not see Mark as a creative genius, in fact we simply wouldn’t know he existed. So maybe we should alter our way of viewing a genius. It is not just the intelligence an individual has but also the fame that comes along with it.