The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has played down the importance of his social networking website for the popular revolutions that occurred recently in Egypt and Tunisia, which brought down presidents. Zuckerberg says that the recent wave of protests against autocratic governments storming through the Arab world could easily have been organized through several other websites that use social networking. The 27-year-old said that it would be completely arrogant for a technology company of his kind to take the credit and claim a key role. Zuckerberg also told a meeting on Internet governance in Paris on Wednesday that he considers online anonymity very valuable. Zuckerberg also states that Facebook will continue to require new and all users to sign up with their real names, and he has no immediate desire to open the social networking services to children under the age of 13.I think that Zuckerberg is afraid to take a semi compliment. His social networking website, Facebook helped allow the people of these Arab countries live in Democracy. It was because of these globally herd cries on Facebook, that they were acknowledged, and partially why there was such a huge change in governing their countries. I think it can be said that Facebook allowed the world to know about the problems these people were facing on a daily basis, and helped them become free.
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