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by GDC7 1640 days ago
Mark said that one of the many input to start Facebook was to bring people to the internet.

He thought to himself : "there's news, there's sport, there's search, where are people and personalities?"

It turns out people really dislike being informed or nonetheless being aware of the presence of other people and their personalities on the internet.

It shouldn't come as a surprise, nobody likes really packed stadium stands or a packed mall or a shop or anything really.

The internet did free us up from acknowladging other people, then FB emerged and back to square one we went