Mark Zuckerberg. A New And Exceptional American.

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most successful young persons today; having become a billionaire by the age of 23 though his hugely popular website Facebook, now used by over 800 million people. Whilst he didn't invent the idea of social networking the reason why he was able to succeed was because he took existing ideas and added his own creative input along with the input of others to create a very easily accessible and widely marketable system anyone can use. Certainly the story of Facebook and it's founder in my opinion is an example that the new and exceptional American that De Crevecouer puts forward. It also alludes to another idea of De Crevecouer; the fact that a man as young as he can strike it rich and become one of the wealthiest people in the world on the grounds of a new idea and during a massive economic downturn is very much in the vein of De Crevecouer's idea that in America "The avenues of trade are infinite".