He's not cool and not into appletinis
Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted it: He's not cool, and he never built Facebook to be cool or meet girls. Oh, and he never heard of an apple martini before the movie The Social Network.
Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted it: He's not cool, and he never built Facebook to be cool or meet girls. Oh, and he never heard of an apple martini before the movie The Social Network.
The Facebook CEO held a public forum, streamed online today, to answer
questions ranging from why the social network controls the News Feed to
why he wears the same shirt everyday.
The "cool" question came up, as it has for the past year, with people wondering if Facebook is still cool or are teens not using the service as much?
"My goal was never really to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool
person, and I've never really tried to be cool," Zuckerberg told the
audience at his company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. He said
Facebook doesn’t need to be cool, it just needs to work, like light
bulbs. "No one says, 'Yeah, electricity,'" he said.
That's actually part of the reason why he had problems with the movie
The Social Network, which he said his company had fun with but didn't
take seriously.
"They kind of made up a bunch of stuff that I found hurtful,"
Zuckerberg said. He said the No. 1 mischaracterization was that he built
Facebook to get girls. He was dating his wife-to-be when Facebook
launched.
After the movie, which he took the whole company to see at the time,
appletinis became an inside joke. He said he never heard of the drink
that he appeared to love in the movie about his life.
Now, about why he wears the same T-shirt everyday—it's a thing geniuses
do, he said. Steve Jobs wore the same thing, and President Barack Obama
has someone picking out his clothes so he doesn't have to waste
brainpower on such mundane tasks.
Still, he said his No. 2 Sheryl Sandberg does make fun of his sparse
wardrobe, but at least he has multiples of the same shirt. It is not the
same grey T-shirt every day.
Zuckerberg also faced a lot of questions about why businesses are reaching fewer fans with their posts. The
CEO said that diminished reach was because of increased competition for
space in the News Feed—the average user could potentially see 1,500
posts from friends, but only have time for 100, he said. - ADWEEK.COM
