Use of the Passive

Facebook … by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 when he was a student at Harvard University.

It … originally … to be a game in which photos of students could be compared and rated according to who was the most attractive.

The project … … by the college within days, but it later became the basis for the social-networking site we know today.

At first, membership … … only to students, but later all people over the age of thirteen were allowed to join.

Today, Facebook … actively … by over one billion people.

In 2011, Zuckerberg … …. by Forbes Magazine to be the ninth most powerful person in the world.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg … on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York.

In January 2004, Zuckerberg … writing code for a new website.

In high school, he … a program that allowed all the computers between his house and his father's dental office to communicate with each other.

Zuckerberg … out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete the project.

Zuckerberg and the other co-founders moved to Palo Alto, California, where they … a small house that served as an office.

They got their first office in mid- 2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group … to return to Harvard, but eventually decided to remain in California, where Zuckerberg appreciated the "mythical place" of Silicon Valley, the center of computer technology in California.