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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)
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
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.
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
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.
screw over as many people as it takes
Zuckerberg is personally trying to screw over the people of Hawaii to make his mammoth estate even bigger, by stealing public land.... so I think being a dick just comes naturally to him.
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. :)
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