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Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road To Meet Regular Folks -- With a Few Conditions (foxbusiness.com)
Mark Zuckerberg is trying to understand America, so he's embarked on a journey to meet people like hockey moms and steelworkers who don't typically cross his path. But there are rules to abide by if you are an ordinary person about to meet an extraordinary entrepreneur. From a report: Rule One: You probably won't know Mr. Zuckerberg is coming. Rule Two: If you do know he's coming, keep it to yourself. Rule Three: Be careful what you reveal about the meeting. While the Facebook CEO has built a social network that inspired people around the world to share the most intimate details about their personal lives, his team goes to extraordinary lengths to keep his movements under wraps and control how he is perceived. Midway through a "personal challenge" to travel to 30 states he'd never visited, the 33-year old aims "to talk to more people about how they're living, working and thinking about the future," he wrote in January on his Facebook page. Among those people was Kyle McKasson, manager of the Wilton Candy Kitchen, a century-old shop on the town square in Wilton, Iowa. He was at work one Monday afternoon in June when two men and a woman dressed in jeans and button-down shirts entered the store, which is a regular stop on Iowa's presidential campaign circuit.
"Meet regular folks". Yeah, you're the moron living in an ivory tower dude. Just fuck off and leave us alone.
or what?
He stole a website idea and now openly swipes private data for wholesalers. I don't see why anyone would give a fuck about meeting him except maybe to beg for investments.
Just ask
I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
People just submitted it.
I don't know why.
They "trust me"
Dumb fucks
...have to work. Nothing says "I get you normal people" like taking a massive cosmopolitan extended vacation.
... the next presidential campaign began !
Make me, asshole.
You'll let out his secret ambition of running for president. He's just out practicing and feeling it out now... surely he must think he can do it given that orange sack we have now.
What a condescending shit. As far as I am concerned his image is of a narcissistic schmuck that rolled the dice and got lucky but who is convinced of his own superiority.
Confirmed: He's running for president in 2020.
Seriously. I don't care what you're worth. Why should I agree to your bizarre demands?
As Mr. Zuckerberg was leaving, he made one request, Mr. Moore said.
"He said, 'If there are any news reporters that call you, just make sure you tell them I'm not running for president.'
Oh, gosh, Mr Zuckerberg, sir! I'll be sure to tell them that! Wink wink!
What a douchenozzle.
A lot of things Mark Zuckerberg says and does make he think he wants to enter politics. Most others will delegate and work on compiled reports - this attempt to reach out to the masses seems very politician like.
He is a billionaire - the whitehouse only costs $5 B or if you believe Mr. Trump, less than $1 B to rent for 4 years. The only reason folks spend that kind of money to get in is because they get more than that, a positive ROI that beats wall street, over the life of the investment.
I can't wait to see him get destroyed in the nomination process. If you think people going after Trump for being friendly with Russia is boring, wait until they start challenging Zuckerberg's Chinese ties.
Good grief. His face isn't well known enough outside tech junkies that he can't travel freely. If he needs to send scouts, announce in advance, and set "rules", Zuckerberg is failing before he starts. Just hop into a car (preferably at least 4 years old, american, and with an MSRP of $40k when new), and take a road trip stopping where ever he wants. No need for an entourage.
But I commend him for trying.
Make no eye contact. Rule 5: Under no circumstances touch Mr. Zuckerberg. Rule 6: Do not speak unless Mr. Zuckerberg speaks to you first. Rule 7: When dismissed, leave as quickly as possible.
The first rule of a Mark Zuckerberg meeting is you don't talk about the Mark Zuckerberg meeting. Wait, maybe that's the second or third rule?
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/mark-zuckerberg-sues-to-keep-native-hawaiians-off-his-kauai-estate
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-land-lawsuits-kauai-estate
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fires-back-misleading-articles-about-hawaiian-estate-2017-1
He and Trump are just two sides of the same coin.
"Mark Zuckerberg will be here in five minutes."
*yawn* you are now trespassing.
Who or what is APK?
Can even a Facebook hater make the case that The Rock or Trump is somehow more qualified?
Rock's a TV star who can probably take care of himself in a bar brawl. Trump is an idiot failed businessman rich kid who road the absolute moral bankruptcy of the political establishment (both parties) into the history books - as an idiot.
Resume isn't required after 2016. Zuck's old enough in 2020. I wouldn't particularly care for him but we could do worse. We're currently doing worse. FWIW I'd prefer Zuck to Hillary and she's going to run again.
he really thinks he is like a god or something?get over yourself, bill gates is way more brillant, riche and generous than you'll ever be and he doesn't do shit like that
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Sanders gave me hope that a regular guy could possible make it - well, as regular as possible (I would not want the ignorant uninformed regular person representing me at all.). A guy who knows what the rest of us are going through and what our concerns are.
And we saw what happened to him.
A political "outsider" has to be immensely wealthy. And I do not believe that he would ever put his interests (or his billionaire "buddies' " interests) ahead of ours.
Tax relief for the middle class? Sure, but we billionaire will get a bigger one. Make up the revenue shortfall? We'll just borrow. There's still plenty of demand for US Treasury Bonds!
Healthcare? Well, we're seeing exactly what's happening on that front right now. The little guy will get shafted yet again.
And if Joe public pays a little too much attention, here comes the distraction issues!
Abortion, gun control, gay marriage, identity politics. Of all the problems in my state, my legislature spent weeks on a bill to decide who can use what bathroom. WTF! When did this become such a goddamn pressing issue?!
Of course, bring any of those issues up and folks get overly-emotional and in the meantime, they get shafted. Consumer protections get gutted, healthcare reform goes out the window, while we get crumbs, the very wealthy get the biggest benefits ....
No thanks, Zuckerberg. Unless you sell out your fellow billionaires - starting NOW - you're just another big shot looking for more power.
...he used to be an "ordinary" person as well.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Sounds like this guy is running for president. He's made a lot of public political comments, and now this. Hmmm....
He told me that he walked past you and you were wider than he thought. Smelled as bad as he expected, though.
Yet he's somehow more disconnected from the common American than the richest people that have run for the Presidency in the past, including Trump, Mitt Romney, Barrack Obama, and John Kerry.
There's no chance in hell will I ever vote for Mark Zuckerberg as President unless it's him versus literally Hitler himself.
It's an open secret that he plans to run for President in the next election.
"...his team goes to extraordinary lengths to keep his movements under wraps and control how he is perceived". You mean to say they WANT me to think that he's, an out-of-touch, condescending, authoritarian, weaselly little Jew, On PURPOSE?
Together with previous rumors of Z running for President, I think we can see what is going on here and where this is going. He's doing research on ordinary folk in preparation for, well, we'll see.
Too may resources, not enough problems...
Obey those "rules"? Ha, the regular steelworker would have no problem ripping off Mark Zuckerberg's head and shitting down his neck were Mark or his minions to try to tell said worker what to do
he's getting ready to run for office. That can't be a good thing. For one thing he raised money for Chris Christy of all people. At best he's another economically right / socially center politicians that'll cut taxes on the rich, cut services for the middle class (e.g. school funding, unemployment, medicare/medicaid). At worst he's another wolf in sheep's clothing that'll hand us over to Wallstreet the way the Clinton's did and roll back the progressive agenda Bernie was working on.
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The rest is a bubble filled with pretentious elitists. Who, by the way, hate the occupants of said bubble with a passion.
A lot of things Mark Zuckerberg says and does make he think he wants to enter politics. Most others will delegate and work on compiled reports - this attempt to reach out to the masses seems very politician like.
I agree that this seems very politician-like.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently, in the frame of who will be running for president in 2000.
Politics is a rough choice, and it takes a very seasoned celebrity to just shrug off the criticism. Add to that the dirty tricks (operation veritas), the completely made-up stories (pizzagate), and the public's general interest in anything that's shocking, unusual, or worthy of memes.
Anyone who bases their self-image in any way on the opinion of others would be completely devastated in a political run. Ross Perot wasn't able to do that, and I'm continuously surprised that Donald Trump could.
Zuckerberg in particular seems too young to have a solid and strong ego, and he doesn't have the experience of politics or celebrity status to fall back on.
While it's a laudable goal, I just don't see Mark Zuckerberg as a viable presidential candidate in the next two or three elections.
I also wonder how much hands-on leadership he has at Facebook. I don't see him as having a vision, and getting people on-board with that vision. Also, I don't see him taking a lot of risks with the company direction.
Contrast with Jeff Bezos, who is taking Amazon in new directions, with some measure of risk, or Elon Musk, who is drawing together a vertically integrated ecosystem of companies. Those two would probably make better political candidates, if they decided to do that.
Politics is a rough choice, and I don't see Mark Zuckerberg fitting in to that lifestyle.
He will run for president... there is no other reason for this...
I post this as an appeal to reason, to any right-thinking American who wishes to do his country, and for that matter his species, a Great Service: Please, assassinate Mark Zuckerberg. With any luck Facebook will die with him, and Humanity can start the healing process from the Cancer they've been plagued with.
An ideal candidate would be someone who is terminally ill and therefore has nothing to lose and wishes to contribute something to the human race before their passing.
Your sacrifice will be noted and remembered. Good luck and good hunting, whoever you might be.
Mark has informed us previously that "privacy is no longer a social norm", and Eric Schmidt of Google says that "if you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
I guess those new norms don't apply to Mark, only to the peons who are lucky enough to be granted an audience with him.
I don't know I've liked what I've seen so far.
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This is as pathetic as it is disgusting....
some kid gets lucky with an app and becomes rich; sure, maybe he's a good programmer, dunno, but by far the majority of his financial success is from luck; good for him, no grudge on my end and maybe I could learn something from how it all happened
so why does he get special air time for anything outside of that? our society has a strange way of giving folks who've done something of note in one area a free pass in other areas for which they have no credentials
for example, asking an actor who they recommend for president..... really? someone who is good at pretending to be somebody else is now someone we should listen to about such weighty issues? sure, they *might* be a pundit of sorts but that credibility has to be earned outside of them being famous for acting
similar to how we pedestalize sports and entertainment figures and report on their every mouth fart on topics far outside playing with a ball or singing and dancing
if he had not become rich/famous at 20-ish and was just another programmer at some XYZ corp.... would he be listened to as intently by an eager reporter? has he enough life experience to run his mouth intelligently on anything? so since he DID get rich/successful while very young, and lived in a rich-guy bubble since then wherein his posse constantly cups his balls, do you think he's lived the kind of life to qualify as someone to be taken seriously outside of any of that?
he's still a child, stunted by not having to live his critical 20's dealing with regular-guy shit like the rest of us; if he's got something important to say to me, it'll have to be done while NOT riding on the coat tails of his super-lucky app success
Maybe he should try to meet with the Hawaiians that he's attempting to sue into being forced to auction their family land because he feels it's too close to his estate. He could probably learn something interesting from them.
Firstly, he is all about owning people's information. I would have no reason to believe he is doing this out of the goodness of anything - because he could do that without a press release.
I don't necessarily disagree with your view in premise, but I don't understand this part:
There is a real problem in this country where people stay within their own "bubble" ... hopelessly ignorant of this issue in our society.
What exactly is the "problem" or "issue"? That people stay within their own areas of interest, or simply have subsets of our society that they are a part of, because of choice or otherwise? Why is reaching outside of your own bubble, or in this case into other people's bubbles, inherently a good thing?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
So
1. he has a team who works hard on how he is perceived.
Or
2. he is going to talk to people to slowly gather the same data he has already mined about them.
So if 1, he is making a run for office. Maybe in 2020.
If 2, they will find him rocking and crying in a shower while repeating "They really do think Obama is a Muslim lizard man.." over and over and over again.
And if you are working on a great idea when he shows up, carefully turn all your papers over and change the subject.
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Mark Zuckerberg called the fight against Nationalism "the struggle of our time", in a Harvard Commencement Speech. He has also called for more international organizations like the EU. Is he nuts?!?! I have heard of rich and powerful celebrities with crazy political ideologies, but Zuckerberg takes the cake. Hopefully he will not do real damage.
There are problems to being a celebrity:
1. Most of the discourse is controlled by critics and dissidents: One needs to grow a thick skin, fast.
2. Being surrounded by critics and groupies means one cannot have an everyday conversation. It's all about how much they hate or love you.
3. Staff perform the everyday chores: One no longer has to worry about feeding the dog or taking little Joey to the dentist.
Celebrity status also means everyday money problems disappear; one no longer has to worry about fixing the car or saving money for a week-end holiday.
4. Due to points 2 and 3, one is alienated from the working/middle class lifestyle and needs staff to perform those everyday conversations instead. Such staff can have their own agenda and gradually the reports focus more on supporting a certain narrative, rather than the reality of everyday life.
This is why celebrities lose touch with 'real' people with everyday problems.
LMAO
the problem is when you take exception to anyone outside your bubble getting any kind of help or basic services. The whole "I don't want to pay for it" club. It's why charity doesn't work as a broad solution to combat social problems. Folks are all for helping people as long as it's 'their' people. Once solidarity breaks down the rich pick us all apart. Google the Union Cookie joke.
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Mark, the team and I have talked, and we think it best you don't pretend to be an AC.
>>"Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road"
Apparently he didn't hit hard enough.
Climb up bridge and try again.
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APK is a mentally ill individual who spams and shit posts to slashdot. He mostly posts bad security advice centered around a hosts file aggregator but also will go on racist or antisemitic rants. If someone challenges him he will stalk them online and will respond to their comment in a demeaning childish way. He doesn't take criticism well and believes that he wins every argument even though at best he just manages to get the last word because of his obsessive stalking of posts. Furthermore he believes himself to be the smartest person on earth but his work is simplistic at best and is easily replicated by anyone with computer knowledge. Because of his stalking it is best to respond, criticize, or poke fun of APK using an AC post as he will stalk you for years because he apparently has nothing better to do.
Go away. If you can't put out there like you expect everyone else to on Facebook I want nothing to do with your hypocritical backside.
He learned Chinese and did after all, bring the worlds people together ... he leads an incredibly productive life...
Chinese is literally the least remarkable language to learn given that over 2 billion people have already done this. As for bringing people together, I think Facebook has done the exact opposite. It lets people post crap about their life online so they can avoid actually having any meaningful conversations with others.
Numerous studies have shown that Facebook use leads to a decline in mental health. In many ways, it is the McDonalds of the internet: wildly popular but bad for society's health. I'd hardly define creating something like that "productive" despite it being extremely financially rewarding.
...In case you really want to hang out with this douchebag.
Zuckerberg is a liberal. Even if he finds what real people think, he will deny it and call them racists, bigots... etc for not thinking the correct way... the liberal way.
It is too late Zuckerberg, the Democrat party is going down in flames.
Way to insult the people you want to meet.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Unless you are over 6 foot 5, everyone is short. Including and especially you.
You see things like height are extremely relative. I bet you are both giants in china.
Being 6 ft 7 inch tall, everyone is short, and its not really that big of a deal as short people make it, when they are competing for and inch or two difference between one another.
Relativity. But bravo for saying how "cool" you are to meet celebrities and feel better than them for superficial reasons.
That's so lame and pathetic. Does his "staff" not see this as the nonsense it is? Does no one sit him down and tell him what an ass he's being?!
Maybe he should visit people around the world. I'm sure America has it's share of problems - every country has.... but some are in more need of his philanthropy that the average Jo in a corner store in the Midwest.
Go see kids picking over landfill sites, go see teenagers being trafficked in India, go see people in Africa who have to walk miles for a few gallons of water every day, go see people in warzones, not knowing if it's gonna be safe to cross the street today.
- I could go on, but you get he picture. - Zuck should pour his millions into something worthwhile, not see if the guy down the road might want to join his computer social (spy) network.