Mark Zuckerberg is huge in Asia.
The Facebook founder was besieged by flash bulbs and greeted by a somewhat “star-struck” Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiko Noda during a visit to Tokyo Thursday, Reuters reports.
“It’s a funny feeling to see you here because I watched the film,” Noda told Zuckerberg, according the Reuters.
“Very different,” Zuckerberg replied about The Social Network, which took a famously critical look at Facebook’s origins when its founder was an undergraduate at Harvard University.
Zuckerberg visited Noda’s house along with a group of Japanese cabinet ministers. Reuters reports that he “strode through the entrance like a movie star” and was “dressed smartly for the occasion in a grey suit and blue tie.”
The meeting seems to have played out almost like a summit between two heads of state. Noda thanked Zuckerberg for the role social media has played in helping people organize and recover from last year’s deadly earthquake and tsunami, while Zuckerberg stressed his company’s dedication to success in Japan. With more than 845 million members, Facebook’s user base is more than six times as large as the population of Japan. If Facebook doubled as a nation, it would be the world’s third-most populated, trailing only China and India.
Facebook has more than 10 million users in Japan, and Japan is the only country outside the United States where the company has an engineering office.
Facebook has doubled its user base in Japan since last year’s earthquake and tsunami, and in February it launched a Disaster Message Board there to facilitate communication during emergencies. Japanese Facebook users can also include their blood type in profile information.
In May, Zuckerberg’s company will offer a $5 billion IPO, the largest in history for an Internet company.
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Source: Mashable
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