Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook to help Harvard students connect with one another. Back then, there weren’t any universal online face books at the university. Sororities and fraternities each had their own individual directories, and there were paper sheets with student and staff profiles distributed to freshmen, but there was no centralized platform. This is what Zuckerberg tried to do with Facebook: gather all that information in one place so that all students at Harvard can learn about each other and communicate with one another.