Mark Zuckerberg may be the most followed person on Google+

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and face of Facebook, may be the most followed person on Google+ -- the social network from Google that is looking to be his biggest rival.Zuckerberg is listed as the most popular person on Google+, in terms of the number of people who follow his profile page, with a tally of 21,213 followers, according to the website Google+ Statistics.

The next most followed person, according to the site, is Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page, with 14,798 followers as of Tuesday morning. Vic Gundrota, who is leading Google's social media efforts, and Sergey Brin, who founded Google with Page, round out the top four, respectively.

The website TechCrunch was the first to report on the rankings from Google+ Statistics, which is built by the same Amsterdam-based team behind TwitterCounter, which tracks user popularity on Twitter.Zuckerberg's popularity on Google+, ahead of those leading Google's social media charge, can be seen at the same time as a bit funny and a bit embarrassing -- a competing CEO is more popular on Google's social network then its own leadership.

Though, it's not terribly surprising considering how well known Zuckerberg is due to massive amounts of media coverage of Facebook -- the world's most popular social network -- and its chief executive.Last year, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's person of the year. He also had a few high-profile TV interviews coinciding with a huge rise in celebrity after the Academy Award-winning film "The Social Network," based on his life and the start-up of Facebook, hit theaters

Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook's minimum age limit to go!

 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants kids younger than 13 years on Facebook. Speaking at NewSchools Summit in the US, Zuckerberg said that younger children should be allowed on the site for education purposes.

According to a news report on Fortune, the Facebook CEO said that in the future, software and technology will enable people to learn a lot from their fellow students. Presently, Facebook allows only people aged 13 and above to sign up for the site. However, it is quite esay to get around this as Consumer Reports recently reported that there are approximately 7.5 million underage kids on Facebook.

However, Zuckerberg seems determined to change this. "That will be a fight we take on at some point," he said according to Fortune. He said that his philosophy is that for education one needs to start at a really, really young age. He pointed out that due to restrictions we haven't even begun this learning process. According to
the article, he says that if allowed, Facebook will ensure that kids are safe on Facebook. "If they're lifted then we'd start to learn what works. We'd take a lot of precautions to make sure that they (younger kids) are safe," he reportedly said.

Interestingly, Facebook chief technology officer Bret Taylor recently appeared before US Congress, where he was grilled about underage kids on the site. In March in a statement, Facebook said that it removes about 20,000 profiles from the site per day for a variety of policy violations, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use.