Facebook, 10 years after
A decade ago, when people wanted to share vacation photos or muse about new movies online, they used MySpace or Friendster. Those star Internet destinations didn’t know it yet, but they were about to be broomed into the dustbin of history, thanks in large part to a Kirkland House sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg and his startup, The Facebook. Facebook turns 10 Tuesday. Gazette staff writer Christina Pazzanese interviewed Harvard’s Jonathan L. Zittrain by email about its evolution from an online social directory for Harvard College students to a communications giant worth $135 billion and used by 1.2 billion people. Zittrain is a professor of law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, and a professor of computer science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also the co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. GAZETTE: Facebook began as a kind of social directory for college students. How unlikely...