"Are you on Facebook?" That's a pretty common question these days whenever you meet someone. With now more than 350 million active users worldwide, it's pretty hard to find someone who isn't.
I just read Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, which is a narrative account of how two Harvard geeks concocted an online scheme to meet girls, and ended up inventing Facebook. From a simple idea created in a dorm room in 2003, to a company that's now valued at between $8-15 billion, it's an extraordinary story about a social phenomenon that has, without us even realizing it, become a part of our daily lives.
Although Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, actually declined being spoken to for this book, it's still an entertaining read - sex, money, betrayal - it's all in there. But you have to take the story with a grain of salt, as there may have been a few liberties taken with the truth (not unlike some Facebook pages).
