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WHATEVER YOUR OPINION is on Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO does manage to set New Year’s resolutions every year and stick to them.
One year he decided to learn Mandarin, which came in useful back in October when he paid a visit to Tsinghua University in Beijing, while others saw him become a vegetarian (or only eating meat if he killed the animal himself), wearing a tie every day (tough to imagine with the grey t-shirt), and writing a thank you note every day to someone who made the world better.
This time, he has put his next aim out to the general public through a public Facebook post.
For background, every year I take on a challenge to broaden my perspective and learn something about the world beyond my work at Facebook… At our last town hall Q&A, someone asked me what my challenge will be for the new year and I said I’d love ideas from our community. I have an idea of what my next challenge might be, but I’m open to more ideas before the new year officially begins. So share your ideas here!
Sp far, it has received 40,788 comments with suggestions ranging from the practical to the obscure.
Some of the most popular suggestions are rather practical like learning how to cook, dance, play an instrument or run a mile every day.
Some were more creative like asking him to read a book every month but someone else gets to choose the book, or write a poem everyday while others suggested ways to use his wealth like helping the homeless or underprivileged kids, feeding the hungry, or pay off a different person’s student loan every day.
And then there were the more obscure requests like deleting users who send Candy Crush invites, recording and releasing a hip-hop album, deleting Facebook Messenger, or introducing a dislike button, the latter Zuckerberg said he wouldn’t introduce one directly because it would be used to shame users.
There’s nothing to say that Zuckerberg will choose any of these suggestions, but at the very least, it will give you some ideas should you be struggling to come up with one of your own.
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Stop companies and political parties from buying likes.
It’s their own loss, as it reduces the amount of real people which are shown their content.
To stay off facebook. Something I find quite easy to do these days since the crazies took over.
Well I won’t be inviting you to play Candycrush so.
: ( decisions have consequences.
Pay a proper Tax in Ireland?
For his resolution he should promise to ask his Facebookers to get a life.
Stop invading people’s privacy, selling their data to advertising companies, and grow a beard.
Wear a different colour T-shirt @least once in 2015…
Stop tracking us
To get rid of Facebook.
Create a time-machine. It’s the natural progression.
Since nobody has ever come back from the future to visit us now…it is my reasonable conclusion that we never invent time travel. That saddens me :-(
Make a damn dislike button
To give all his wealth away
He’s given tens of millions away this year, to a healthy mix of causes. How much have you donated in 2014, and to what?
A hint of spite fullness alright
to leave Ireland, it does nothing for us, same for the others. they have offices in many countries anyway, this notion of the irish hub HQ is bs, they don’t really need us, which is fine by me too.
Don’t dispute he doesn’t give to charity, in terms of volume I’m sure it’s substantial, but I suppose in all things it’s relative, what have I given? I’m not shy in giving don’t believe in being the richest person in the graveyard that’s for sure
Who cares, greedy little so and so..journal please stop feeding us this drivel.
Simon nobody is forcing you to read it
I would say he’s far from greedy!
It was never about money for him.
He should pay off the Irish National Debt and we’ll transfer the ownership of Ireland equally to all Facebook account holders who can then govern the country by facebook polls; those with the most friends get extra votes.
Put on 40lbs of muscle! CEO style like Vince McMahon!
To take my idea of facetube seriously (cross of facebook and YouTube)
I think my idea for Arsebook is better
Who gives a fck what he says, I don’t think about this man from the minute I get up to the moment I go asleep.
Next
Stop supporting liberals and their failed agenda.
Go back to your cave cian.
Ctrl-alt-delete = Facebook!
yep, this guy couldn’t stick a stamp to an envelope without the attention that motivates him – the world watches, so must do, gets more attention. i’d hate to meet this guy. i don’t think we’d have a lot of humbleness in common.
His New Year’s resolution should be to make up his own mind and not getting others to influence him …but then again he is so young……………..
Plastic surgery.
Why Philip is he not your type?
No,his head’s fine.
It’s not the size that counts but the motion of the ocean.
Which head are you talking about?
Ohh Eric… she only tells you that because want doesn’t want to hurt your feelings.
*because she doesn’t want to hurt..* Gaaahhhhh!!
Mark, you can divide your fortune out equally amount all current resisdents of Ireland….mmm how much each?? Now that would be a happy New year, until the government find a way to tax it
its a multi national company, so no way this government tax it ,or any of its profits !
Stop being an egotistical douch and get over yourself for a start.
Who asked you simon to read it have you no mind of your own
Well if the movie is to be believed then he is due about as much credit for the idea behind Facebook as I am.
– If he is really looking for resolution ideas then I think he should give those freaky Twins their company back and go get an honest job stocking aisles at Wal-Mart…..
stop putting ‘game requests’ and ‘people you might want to know’ posts on my status page, if i want to know or ‘friend’ someone im quite capable of doing so without any help from you !
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