11 Mistakes that Could Have Destroyed Facebook


Mistake No. 6

Hacking into Crimson

When Harvard Crimson reopened the case of Mark Zuckerberg having stolen the idea of Facebook from Winklevoss brothers, Zuckerberg notoriously hacked into the crimson database to download messages that were being exchanged between reporters and sent it to many of his friends.

What could have happened?

Following the Harvard Honour Code, if any of zuckerberg’s friend would have reported against him, he could got kicked out of Harvard and lost his reputation way too much to attract any users to Facebook.