Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (II)

In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning: It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me. On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million-user mark.

Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 " most influential people of the Information Age"

In a 2011 interview with PBS after the death of Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg said that Jobs had advised him on how to create a management team at Facebook that was " focused on building as high quality and good things as you are". On November 6, 2007, Zuckerberg announced a new social advertising system called Beacon, which enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. For example, eBay sellers could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed as they list items for sale..

In 2007, Zuckerberg was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, The Social Network was released on October 1, 2010, and stars Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. After Zuckerberg was told about the film, he responded, " I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." Zuckerberg created an account with Google+ soon after the social network was unveiled, saying he sees it as a " validation for his vision" of online social networking.

On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed a promise they called the " Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time, and invited others among the wealthy to donate 50% or more of their wealth to charity.. At a party put on by his fraternity during his sophomore year, Zuckerberg met Priscilla Chan, a fellow student who he began dating in 2003. Chan is the child of a Chinese-Vietnamese refugee. On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan married in Zuckerberg's backyard in a celebration also marking her graduation from medical school.

On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he listed his personal interests as " openness, making things that help people connect and share what's important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism". Zuckerberg sees blue best because of red–green colorblindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant color.