Facebook’s co-founder becomes the 3rd richest person in the world

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder has now become the world’s third-richest person. Zuckerberg has jumped over Warren Buffett to register the spot under his name. Zuckerberg now is trailing behind Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Bill Gates.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zuckerberg wealth expanded over soaring of around 2.4 percent in Facebook’s share on Friday.

Interestingly, this is the first time ever, that the world’s top three richest men are from the world of technology. Zuckerberg, 34, is now worth $81.6 billion, about $373 million more than Buffett, the 87-year-old chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Earlier on May 14, Mark Zuckerberg celebrated his 34th birthday. He has become the became the youngest billionaire in the world at the age of 23 in the year 2008. He was ranked 785 on the World’s Billionaires list.

He was approached by several companies with job offers (including AOL and Microsoft) before he even graduated high school, but Zuckerberg turned them all down and decided to go to Harvard University. He eventually dropped out of Harvard University to devote himself full-time to Facebook.

In July 2011, he became the most followed user on Google’s social network Google+, surpassing its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Meanwhile, If you were wondering why your ex-was able to message you on Facebook even after you blocked him or her, blame a bug for that mess up. Facebook revealed that a privacy bug, impacting 800,000 users, allowed even those who’ve been blocked on the platform or Messenger to become unblocked, Mashable reported.

The bug, which has been now fixed, did not allow the blocked contacts to see content shared by the user, but they may have been able to contact the user who blocked them via Messenger.

Recently, Facebook said it is notifying more than 800,000 users that a software bug temporarily unblocked people at the social network and its Messenger service. The glitch active between May 29 and June 5 has been fixed, according to Facebook, which has been striving to regain trust in the aftermath of a Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.