Posted on 06/28/2017 7:10:59 AM PDT by Lorianne
Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook groups to play an important role that community groups like churches and Little League teams used to perform: Bringing communities together.
And with nearly 2 billion people around the world on Facebook today, he might have a chance to make it happen.
Zuckerberg laid out his lofty ambition in a Chicago speech last week that suggested Americans are in need of something to unify their lives.
"It's so striking that for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter," he said during a rally for Facebook users who've built large community-support groups on the site. "That's a lot of of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else."
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Real space interactions with people are going to be even more important in the future.
Delusions of grandeur much?
What a moron.
Zuckerberg is a loon.
Perhaps, everyone should send him a handheld mirror.
They are on special at the Dollar Store.
Interactions aside (but they are very important), baseball and church (sans personal electronica) tend to focus the attention of the attendees. Facebook allows the user to wander. Facebook has absolutely no relationship to either baseball or church. Zuckerberg is a wealthy fool, with a soapbox.
Man is amazing. He is the only infinitesimal speck of protein capable of thinking he is God.
And guess who will be the new Pope...
Pride goes before a fall. Zuckerberg has no idea what he’s talking about. Let’s pray he finds out before it’s too late.
Zuck plans to make sure that all Facebook members only see official deep state propaganda—what a dirtball.
This is like a Dean Koontz book. And it doesn’t end well.
"All Hail the Facebook." (/sarc)
FB is one community group which I refuse to belong.
A good example of why thirty-year olds should never become THIS wealthy and powerful.
No it can't.
Yep. Everyone in my family is on FB but me. I wish they would get off of it.
He now thinks he can replace God! That’s pretty special.
Just like binoculars and telescopes having been bringing neighbors closer together for ever...
How can one build a community where people never actually see one another?
Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.
Well, thanks to Facebook, I’m much more connectedness to my church family that never before. We plan our Wednesday meals, give each other rides, plan worship services, share prayer needs, help with emergencies, all in ways that were more challenging before social media. Thanks Zuck!
What? Throw up a computer and hit it with a bat?
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