14 DAY TRIAL // For one hour, on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg replied to questions from the Facebook community, questions about various tools the company created, but also about other, more relaxed topics.
Zuck responded pretty clearly about why the company chose to create an additional mobile app, Messenger, while forcing people to stop using Facebook’s main app for this particular purpose, he also told the world that it planned to connect everyone to the Internet and what his favorite features were those that weren’t actually released to the world.
These weren’t the only questions he addressed during the Q&A, however. The man behind Facebook was asked just how accurate the 2010 movie “Social Network” (featuring Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake) was.
“I kinda blocked that one out. It was a very interesting experience that was supposedly about my life. The reality is that, writing a code and building a product is not that exciting,” Zuckerberg said. He added that the movie wasn’t all that accurate, in fact, since they made up a bunch of stuff that he found hurtful.
Moving on to a funnier question, Zuck was asked why he always wears the same shirt every day. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer, took his defense, saying that Mark had more than one of that style of T-shirt.
For his part, however, Zuckerberg explained that making small decision like what to wear and eat was a tiring thing for him. “I feel like I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on stuff that’s frivolous,” he said, indicating just how dedicated he was to the company and the project he set out years ago.
Facebook vs. Ebola
There was also one point where Zuckerberg addressed the new donation button that popped up on Facebook, asking people to help the fight against Ebola.
The Facebook CEO said that this was a critical moment in time when we need to focus and stop Ebola from spreading before it could become a global epidemic. While he admits that this isn’t the biggest cause of death that’s out there, this is the moment when we have a chance to not let Ebola be the next HIV.
One user quickly got shut down by Zuckerberg over in the comments area. He was complaining about the fact that Facebook was giving everyone the ability to donate, but he was maybe questioning how much Facebook, a huge corporation, was donating for the cause, accusing the social network of using the issue as a marketing ploy.
“I personally donated $25 million (€20.16 million) and Facebook is spending millions more on providing Internet connectivity in the affected regions,” Zuckerberg wrote, effectively shutting hum up.