Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg

https://www.facebook.com/qawithmark?hc_location=timeline

by gordon_freeman • 12 years ago

58 29 12 years ago

minimaxir• 12 years ago

Of course, the most-Liked proposed questions such as "when u gonna introduce the dislike button ?" and "Why you forced us to install Facebook messenger ?" are the ones that would never be answered in a million years by Mark, therefore making the "vote on a question you want me to answer by liking it" community selection process somewhat pointless.

gordon_freeman3• 12 years ago

or "Why can't the news feed stay as 'most recent?"

sparkzilla2• 12 years ago

Because: ads.

gfosco• 12 years ago

It has been answered so many times. The data has shown that it actually hurts engagement. The algorithm is better than a simple time-ordered sort.

Shad0w59• 12 years ago

FB Purity http://www.fbpurity.com/

benmathes• 12 years ago

Easier to just recognize the questions you want to answer as opposed to having to come up with them yourself?

onewaystreet• 12 years ago

Both questions have been answered by Facebook employees on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-no-Dislike-button

http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-point-of-Facebook-Messenger

sparkzilla2• 12 years ago

I dislike the first answer. Other sites, like Buzzfeed and You.gov, an YouTube allow a wider range of emotional responses to their content.

wehadfun• 12 years ago

My fav so far was: Will you call future sessions like this question mark?

karlb• 12 years ago

In case anyone didn't understand it with the punctuation removed:

Can you call future events like this "Question Mark"?

devindotcom• 12 years ago

Ha! That's mine. To the moon!

gordon_freeman3• 12 years ago

so I am wondering whether Mark will able to answer more important questions on privacy and government requests etc if he chooses the most liked ones such as celebrity crush,dislike button,etc?

yuhong• 12 years ago

I asked about it on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-has-happened-to-Mark-Zuckerbergs-o...

gordon_freeman3• 12 years ago

now let's wait for the answer. :)

rwinn• 12 years ago

Top comment (for me):

    Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low
     
    Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks

    (i also wanted to know that is there any source to reach you ? if there is, i want to know..and if none..do establish one... a good idea can come from anywhere..from anyone.. )

I've also experienced this, you're only able to reach 5-10% of your fans without paying. Only way of getting a message out to all your fans is to "boost" your post, which will cost you around 0.015 EUR per like the page has. [1]

And on top of that if you ever used Facebook ads to get likes to your page, a majority of those are fake. [2]

[1] Based on my rough calculations on a couple of pages I run.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

Alupis2• 12 years ago

at my company, like many other companies... we've found that advertising on facebook is almost pointless (the paid adverts). the actual engaged customer return you get back is not enough to justify the cost.

Think about it, how many users are on facebook chatting with friends, see an advert, and suddenly say, "gee, i'm going to go buy that!". It doesn't happen often.

bdlbdl• 12 years ago

Facebook's display ads won't be profitable for every direct response advertiser, but they are incredibly effective.

Have you tried working with third parties like Nanigans or Tellapart to optimize your ads?

nether• 12 years ago

Removed quotation sidescrolling:

Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low
Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks
(i also wanted to know that is there any source to reach you ? if there is, i want to know..and if none..do establish one... a good idea can come from anywhere..from anyone.. )

ryanwhitney• 12 years ago

🙌

corobo• 12 years ago

As a user of Facebook if all of the page's I've liked over the years were able to get my attention whenever they wanted it I would not be a Facebook user

StudlyCaps• 12 years ago

I don't have a Facebook account so I can't post a question. Can someone post this question for me? Ask Zuck why he's invested so much money into making their own frankenstein PHP when they could have just used Java? I mean I like PHP and all. It's great for blogs or personal websites, but why would you invest all of that blood, sweat and beers into build something at that scale on PHP?

NoodleIncident• 12 years ago

By the time they got around to building "frankenstein PHP", it was way too late to switch languages. Before that, there was no time to switch.

The whole development process of Hack is interesting. It was very organic, if the stories I heard were true. Someone got it in their head to try compiling php to c++; they tested it and got a free 20% (ballpark) speedup of everything. Then they made a VM to make it faster and more efficient, and once they had that vm, it was easy to add small, useful features like 'await' and such.

Much of what people hate about PHP isn't in Hack, by the way. It has type hinting, lots of dumb conversions don't happen, and obviously it's not interpreted. Hack is really just a better language they made that, because it shares the same syntax as PHP, was very easy to switch over to while still developing features.

lacker• 12 years ago

Well, at some point Facebook had a code base with a whole bunch of PHP and it was worth a lot of effort to make it more efficient. One possibility was rewriting stuff, one possibility was this project to make a different PHP compiler. It wasn't obvious what the right strategy was and the Facebook spirit is to try lots of stuff and see what works. So effort went into each, and basically each of the methods turned out worthwhile for some things. Nowadays a lot of components of Facebook are not written in PHP, especially the infrastructural components. But a lot are written in PHP and work goes into the compiler. So the answer is, it didn't happen dogmatically, it happened bit by bit.

randomguy7788• 12 years ago

did he actually answer ANY question? i cant find any...

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