Facebook billionaire visits Bangkok

BANGKOK - Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the popular social-networking website Facebook and the world’s youngest billionaire, has been spotted in Bangkok, media reports said Thursday.

Zuckerberg, Time magazine’s person of the year, was attending a friend’s wedding in the Thai capital this week, The Nation newspaper reported.

He was first spotted at the Enchanted Bar late Monday, setting off a papparazzi hunt for the young chief executive of the website that claims 500 million users worldwide.

He was reportedly in town to attend a three-day traditional Thai wedding of his close friend and Facebook vice president Chris Cox, who was tying the knot with Thai national Visra Vichit-Vadakan.

The couple met 10 years ago at Stanford University’s Traditional Japanese Drum Club, The Nation said.

Visra’s father, Vivatvong, a co-founder of Thailand’s internet provider CS Loxinfo PCL, told the Thai press that Zuckerberg had asked him to keep his visit quiet.

“He is a very nice and humble guy,” Vivatyong was quoted as saying. “He is not as he is portrayed in the movie The Social Network.”