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Mark Zuckerberg's 2018 Personal Challenge Is To Do His Job As CEO (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Fun fact about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Every year he gives himself a "personal challenge," which is not to be confused with the "New Year's resolutions" us plebs do every year. Over the years, he says, thanks to these challenges, he's taken up running as well as learned foreign languages and read books. But this year, as more revelations come to light about the rampant misuse of Facebook's platform -- including the spread of fake news and other forms of disinformation -- Zuckerberg's challenge is to focus on his business. "The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do -- whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," he writes. "My personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing these important issues." In essence, Zuckerberg is vowing to help fix the problems that plague Facebook, which is his job, something he admits: "This may not seem like a personal challenge on its face," Zuckerberg writes, "but I think I'll learn more by focusing intensely on these issues than I would by doing something completely separate."
My personal challenge is to stop posting on Facebook. :-D
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
"... making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent,"
How precious.
Doing your job as a HUMAN being. Its much more difficult.... and Rewarding. But alas, you are too busy trying to restrict access to the 700 Acres in HI you own, to those poor people who were there for GENERATIONS before you and your money. Everything that comes out of your elitist maw is a LIE. Get Fuked Zuck.... -Steve
... to prepare to run for president in 2020. He's already been visiting states that are important for that run.
I want to stop hate speech by only allowing one side in the debate.
I want to make it look like I'm stopping Russian usage of my site to influence elections while simulltaneously bending over for China.
I want people to use my site to continue my power and wealth.
I feel these things are important in my personal self-growth in the universe.
My god can anybody else be so full of himself?!
right after they ruin it
If I ever somehow got rich, the main thing I'd do is spend more time in bed with my wife. Maybe I would also try to support some very specific areas of scientific research. But I sure wouldn't waste my time trying to make FaceBook "time well spent". But maybe that's why I'm not rich. :)
Close Facebook down.
You've made enough money Mark, now make the world a better place.
This is a direct result of facebook machine learning algorithms that seek out vulnerable people, force them into an echochamber, hide their legitimate social contacts, so they will be more likely to click on fucking ads.
The only way this shitheel could benefit humanity would be to neck himself on livestream.
He always seemed so weird but the other day I was able to put my finger on it: All of his communication is given in the tone of a TED talk with the substance of clickbait filtered through a focus group of machine learning algorithms.
Which is it? Do his job as a CEO and screw over as many people as it takes to marginaly improve profits or focus of fixing important issues? You can't have both.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
He does not know de way.
He must get back to Uganda and protect de queen.
I'm sorry, VR chat is having way more effect on me than Facebook ever did.
Your job as CEO is to increase the market cap, market share, and profitability of your company... THAT is ALL !!!! .. everyone has their spin on things, and the other guy's is "fake" in their minds.
"News" is like "Religion"
Lastly - facebook is FOUNDED on social dopamine feedback addiction. You gonna become a conscientious crack dealer ?
Time to give intel some MegaHurtz - sue now!
The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do -- whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent
I have an idea for you Mr. Zuckerberg, how about making a commitment to being honest? Facebook is the ultimate time waster. You've exceeded everyone's expectations in that regard. Nothing left to do there.
We'll make great pets
In the modern parlance, "hate" simply means one group criticizing another. Trying to ban it is a dog-chasing-its-tail type scenario that just exacerbates the enmity. Focus on not being a creepy, intrusive, greedy, manipulative, and socially irresponsible company instead!
Alternative Right.
"making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent"
except study after study has shown that it isnt time well spent. The problem that facebook has is that it has painted its self into a corner with too many conflicting goals. To be a nice happy place, while being a bastion for free speech, while being a place of e-commerce for small businesses, while being an advertising platform all while being a social network. With such conflicting goals it will be nearly impossible to succeed, for example he will find it hard to get rid of "hate speech" and "fake news" with out a crap-ton of policing (and even then it really will only be a cat and mouse game) but that policing will reduce the social network side of things as their algorithms to crack down on the stuff they dont want will affect innocent people (through false positives) thus removing the social part of the network.
YMMV but i keep having my account suspended for "suspicious activity" with out a clarification of what that is, although i am almost certain that it is linked to ublock origin and no-script, which makes me want to log in less and less. After all, if trying to protect my computer while surfing the web is considered suspicious activity then it brings the modus operandi of Facebook as a social network into serious question because protecting my self and my property through defensive means should never be considered suspicious. They also employ some very smart people that understand that products like no-script and adblockers exist thus they should be able to make it very clear which domains i can white-list in order to get it to work properly yet they choose to have nothing in their support pages. This seems like either they dont really care about their support pages or the people using their social-network.
Im sorry Zuck, but you cannot have a social media platform that is also a data gathering operation as well as an advertising platform, Its business 101, understand who is your customers, what is your product, and your plan to monetize the supply/demand relationship between them. So in the end people are either the customers or the product, we cannot be both
Another major problem that they have is the attiude people should have to opt out rather than explicitly opt in to their service. The idea that they know whats best for people is what will eventually end them. You might be able to trick some people into believing that they have the personal control that everyone actually wants, but the charade will be harder to keep up the longer it goes on.
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Creimer affiliate spam. Mod down and report to Amazon.
Really? We can't be a little more intelligent than that?
I tend to rant.
Just suck dick for coke..
I mean look how he has managed his life so far..
Am I really that far off??
Similiar to what goes on with the staph that has taken over this crap publication..
Report to Amazon?
Who do you think gave him that link?
You think they want him to not post it everywhere?
That is literally it's purpose!
Maybe /. should start filtering affiliate links. Sounds like the kinda thing the lameness filter should be used for anyways.
"The world feels anxious and divided."
That's mighty humble of Zuck thinking the world revolves around FB and he can solve these problems by changing his daily FB priorities, but I doubt he can or will have much impact on reuniting or calming the world.'
We need to address the root problems like deep political divides, dishonesty and corruption, nuclear threats, environmental catastrophes, poverty, etc.
Having never posted on FB or tweeted, my 2018 personal challenge is to continue to avoid both FB and tweets. It won't be difficult.
Circle the wagons and fire inward. Entropy increases without bounds.
And do not run a campaign for presidency.
With one year without Facebook, my challenge will be, can I make it two? I think so, I don't want it back.
I found that most time spent on Facebook was a waste of time and did little of value to me.
There were communication with our local HOA, a closed community "security" group, and my local MTB club/trail maintenance. But besides from that, it did nothing good for me.
One thing I would say if you HAD to have a facebook account. Don't have the app on you cell phone, just use login from a dedicated browser on your machine so you won't fall into the trap of checking the damn thing all the time. :)
L'Idiot
And Eric Schmidt the King.
How about as a personal challenge, Zuck stops being such a statist weasel?
An utter landslide. Please, please, let Zuck run so we can watch the comedy and see Facebook stock tank simultaneously.
That is a solid commitment and if he pulls this off he may well make a difference. Separating the wheat from the chaff is a tough challenge, not only on facebook. If he manages to make facebook less prone to abuse then he may well be doing many users a favour. This will translate into increased confidence in facebook and thus improve his profits. I can't find a problem there.
A CEO's job is to make money - Mark is saying that he wants to improve Facebook so that it's a helpful tool to the world.
The two may be the same thing, but currently I don't think it is. Currently people seem quite happy listening to people that agree with them and believing things that match their perceptions...and getting a bit angry about it (ie. self-righteous indignation...I think there was a cartoon with a spaceship called that...possibly captained by a rabbit?).
Removing falsehoods and promoting sensible discourse within Facebook won't make more people happier in the short term but is a good thing for the world. It may also be a good thing for Facebook as a company in the long term but there's no evidence to suggest that.
Good luck to him.
Christ, what an asshole.
I'm not on facebook, I give zero f**ks!
A millennial posting that his New Year's resolution is to finally do his job...
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