Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

New York Magazine
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

The best text on Facebook and its role in, well, the world, that I’ve read in a long while. It excels in that it addresses the difficulty of grasping Facebook as a company, as a community, as a phenomenon. It doesn’t try to reduce complexity, but embraces it instead. Key quote: «Facebook has grown so big, and become so totalizing, that we can’t really grasp it all at once. Like a four-dimensional object, we catch slices of it when it passes through the three-dimensional world we recognize.»


From Weekly Filet #250, in October 2017. More on: #

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