Zuckerberg unveils new mission at Facebook Community Summit in Chicago
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced his new mission of bringing the world closer together. The new mission statement was unveiled at a Facebook Community Summit in Chicago. Through this mission, Facebook will give people the power to build communities that will help bring the world closer. As Facebook has emerged as a great platform to outbreak news, community outreach and online discussions, this mission ought to bring in a positive impact soon.
Zuckerberg believes that Facebook’s task is not to just connect people, but help them build an effective social infrastructure in the digital platform. Speaking during the launch, Zuckerberg said, “More than 1 billion people around the world use Groups, and more than 100 million people are members of ‘meaningful groups’,” the company said in a blog post. “These are groups that quickly become the most important part of someone’s experience on Facebook. Today we’re setting a goal to help 1 billion people join meaningful communities like these.”
This mission will help admins of group’s access to real-time metrics around growth, engagement and membership, as well as more ways to sort and filter membership requests on common categories like gender and location, to make the job go quicker. Admins also now have an easier way to remove trolls from a group, as well as any content they may have created. Another feature being tested is group to group linking; which allows group admins to recommend similar or related groups to their members, to help bring sub-communities closer together.