Zuckerberg on communities

Mark Zuckerberg on why real-world communities need new online tools.

Transcript

00:00I used to think that if we just gave people a voice and

00:03And help some people connect that that would make the world a lot better all by itself

00:12But you know today when we look around our society is still very divided

00:16So

00:28Studies have actually proven that the more connected we are

00:31The happier we are and the healthier we are too, you know

00:35So that's why it is so striking that over the past few decades

00:39Membership in all kinds of communities around the world has been declining and in a lot of places by as much as one quarter

00:46If

00:49There are almost two billion people on Facebook

00:52And how come we've only helped connect a hundred million of them to two meaningful communities?

00:56Well, it turns out that that in the physical world and online most of us don't seek out communities

01:02So a little while ago, I started we started this project at Facebook to see if we could just get better at suggesting

01:09Communities that were going to be meaningful to you and in six months

01:12We've helped more than 50%

01:15More people join meaningful communities on Facebook than had joined them the whole history of the product before that. So now

01:22We're gonna set a goal

01:24We want to help 1 billion people

01:27Join meaningful communities. This is the power of the communities that you are all building

01:34You may think you're just creating a space for new moms or for bird watchers or for locksmiths

01:40But

01:42When you give people a way to connect and a sense of support it can lead to important changes