Facebook heads home to Harvard

The Guardian has reported that Facebook confirmed yesterday that it is opening a Boston-area office just a couple of miles away from where the website was initially founded in Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard University dorm room. Facebook's current headquarters is in Menlo Park, California.

The team, which will be in Cambridge, the town just outside Boston where Harvard is located, will focus on infrastructure projects in areas including storage, networking, security, and language runtimes.

"The tech community here is world class, from the incredible academic institutions to the vibrant startup ecosystem to the bevy of global companies who have teams here," said Ryan Mack, who will lead the office. "We are thrilled to have found a new home here and hope we can help the community continue to thrive."

Mack and a couple of other Facebook employees have been in the Boston area for a couple of years, working "from a series of coffee shops, libraries, and co-working spaces," including a basement in Chinatown, he said.

How lovely to see this social media giant return to its roots.