Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) will celebrate its ten years of existence on February 4 this year. To celebrate this event, The Guardian has revealed the first ten users of what was initially known as “The Facebook.” The company co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was the fourth user of the social network he co-founded. That’s because he had reserved the first three accounts for testing.
In the beginning, everyone on Facebook Inc was given a user ID number when joined. The first few million users were numbered on the basis of university. For example, 0-99999 were assigned to Harvard users, 100000-199999 were strictly for Columbia users, 200000-299999 were for Stanford users, and so on.
First ten Facebook users
Here is the list of the first ten Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) users (excluding the three testing accounts):
10- Mark Kaganovich
Kaganovich was a student at Harvard when Zuckerberg started the social network. He was good friends with David Hammer, who became the 11th member of Facebook Inc.
9- Colin Kelly
Kelly was also a Harvard student and a good friend of David Hammer. It seems like many early Facebookers were acquaintances.
8- Andrew McCollum
McCollum was in the computer class of Zuckerberg. He also had a good friendship with early Facebooker David Hammer. Later, Mark Zuckerberg asked McCollum to design the first logo of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB).
7- Chris Putnam
Putnam studied at Georgia Southern University, not Harvard. He was an early Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) engineer. Putnam would do hacks and pranks on Facebook, which caught the eye of co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.
6- Soleio Cuervo
Cuervo was friends with Marcel George Laverdet. He later worked at the social networking giant, and played an important role in the development of the “Like” button.
5- Marcel Georgés Laverdet
Laverdet didn’t go to Harvard, but he was friends with many early Facebookers including Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. Laverdet later joined the social networking company as a software engineer.
4- Arie Hasit
Hasit was Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, and the first non-founder to join the social network.
3- Dustin Moskovitz
Moskovitz co-founded Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) with pals Chris Hughes and Mark Zuckerberg. He was also roommates with Zuckerberg. Today he is a billionaire with a net worth of $3.8 billion.
2- Chris Hughes
Hughes co-founded the social networking giant. His net worth is estimated at $850 million.
1- Mark Zuckerberg
The man who has more than 21 million followers on the social network he co-founded. He is one of the richest men in the world, with an estimated net worth of more than $20 billion. Zuckerberg has signed the Giving Pledge.
