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Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com)

Posted by msmash on from the change-in-plans dept.

Facebook CEO believes the company's primary purpose is a social one -- the same it has had for year -- but he's ready to update this mission for the first time. From a report: "We used to have a sense that if we could just do those things, then that would make a lot of the things in the world better by themselves," Zuckerberg told CNN Tech. "But now we realize that we need to do more too. It's important to give people a voice, to get a diversity of opinions out there, but on top of that, you also need to do this work of building common ground so that way we can all move forward together." The company even has a new mission statement: "To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together." This marks the first time the company has overhauled its mission, which had previously been "to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." Zuckerberg believes he has just the tool for the job: Facebook Groups, which are now used by a billion people. "A lot of what we can do is to help create a more civil and productive debate on some of the bigger issues as well," Zuckerberg told CNN Tech.

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  1. Almost correct... by evolutionary · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook's goal is to "get everyone together" in a database where our faces can be scanned by various government departments both state and federal, done legally or illegally (including police departments in New York City and Vermont), to track use whenever we pass by a digital camera, whether or not they are charged with a crime, just because...

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  2. more like dividing people by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've never seen anything better at dividing people than Facebook. It encourages a mob mentality, whipping people up with the crisis of the day, the two minutes hate.

    Either sign on to the memes or get run over.

  3. Re:Always by Koreantoast · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, to bring people closer together, so we can see up close just how much we hate each other. :P

  4. Free communication. What could go wrong? by Mike+Van+Pelt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” -- Douglas Adams.

  5. Keep the world apart by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By bringing everyone together, making everyone the same, we remove checks and balances on world power and create tyranny.

    Take your "one-world" and "we are all one" peacenik nonsense and faff off.

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