'Welcome to Facebook, your new job': High school students will spend four weeks learning ins and outs of social network

When the 10 East Palo Alto students selected to participate in Facebook's inaugural high school internship program stepped off the shuttle bus for their first day at the social network company's headquarters, they looked a little awe-struck.

Several television news cameras caught their arrival as Susan Gonzales, head of Community Engagement for Facebook, led them into one of the nine buildings on the sprawling Menlo Park campus at the corner of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road. "Welcome to Facebook, your new job," Gonzales said, greeting them with a smile. "We hope this will change your life." The four-week high school internship program -- called Facebook Academy -- is one of the "public benefits" the company promised to deliver in exchange for Menlo Park's permission to let it eventually employ more than 6,000 people on the former Sun Microsystems campus.