Whilst I am sure around 80% of the netizens today are addicted to the social networking sites. It is this addiction only that is working as a benediction for the founder of Facebook, who makes big bucks on very click made by its savvy users on daily basis. Mark Zuckerberg is like any other ordinary geek who use to sit for hours doing R&D on PC rather than doing networking. But later he discovered the potential behind any social networking site and came out with a concept of meeting new people online through Facebook. It is this product only that makes him the proud owner of $1.5 billion Company.

Forbes reports Zuckerberg is the adolescent self-made man ever to make its list. Here is a small backgrounder to the tycoons topping the list of having fortunes viz. first- and third-ranked Investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates were residing at the top spot for last 13 years with their fortunes valued at $62 billion and $58 billion respectively. The second position in the list compiled by forbes counts Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu with a fortune of $60 billion.

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