Zuckerberg next mission for facebook,  Such a manifesto hardly anyone expected

Facebook CEO felt social responsibility and changed the mission of the company. His statements relate rather to the vision of building society rather than profit, sometimes sounding like a political manifesto.


On June 22, the first Facebook Community Summit in Chicago took place. Hundreds of group administrators listened and learned about new features to use. On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announced on his profile a new mission of the company. It sounds "to give people the power to build a community and bring the world closer together." It replaces the previous mission, "giving people the power to share and make the world open and united."

As the CEO himself writes, Facebook has already done a lot for people to communicate with each other, but that is not enough. "Our society is still divided. I believe our responsibility is to do more. It is not enough to connect people; You also have to get close to each other. We need to give people the opportunity to express different opinions, and the ability to build a common ground for development. "

This mission is to meet groups increasingly. Thanks to the changes made, group administrators have been given tools such as tracking statistics or filtering members by categories, deleting members along with their posts and comments.

By focusing on groups, Facebook's CEO expresses the belief that building a global community must start from the bottom, not from the top. - Lots of important tasks are global, such as global climate change, pandemics and terrorism. None of these tasks can be performed by one country or by one group of people. There is no top-down structure that would allow that, so we have to build at the bottom, "he commented in CNN.

"Our new mission is not just a postulate. It is all philosophy and hope for the world. We fulfill our mission not by announcing passwords, but by the daily work of each of us. And if enough of us will build a community that will bring people together, then we can change the world, "he wrote.