New Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg held his first midnight QnA on Facebook LIVE. The one-hour session saw a handful of 111,000 people tuned in and Zuckerberg answered all their questions ranging from his life, his mission and upcoming features on Facebook.
The Facebook CEO also offered a sneak peek into the future of Facebook, and what it will be like using decades from now. He also gave all the budding entrepreneurship advice on how the social network can help. Also he told viewers how Facebook could change the way people interact through virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
The session is interesting and worth a watch and you can catch the entire session on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page.
Here are 10 quick highlights from Mark Zuckerberg’s very first live video:
1. Zuckerberg in his Live Q&A video stressed upon the importance of being connected. He said that he believes humanity’s problems and achieving world peace can be done through social media, which is the best medium to be connected. “One of the things that I am very proud of that our community does is that, whenever, there is a tragedy around the world, we always find a way to come together. Be it the earthquake in Nepal, where our community raised money to help victims. Last week, we saw that again. So, many people have expressed support...for the victims in Orlando,” he said.
2. Zuckerberg answered a lot of top voted questions related to Facebook. He revealed that Facebook will provide online folders in future, which will be able to store posts and other information.
3. In the live chat he revealed that education is something he really cares about, and believes that personalized education is more effective. “People can learn up to 50% more with personalised learning,” Zuckerberg said. He also added that teaching people via games, videos are some of the best ways.
4. It was obvious that he will speak about intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR). So in one of his query he said that the company is working on better experience. He wants to make the experience more real for users.
5. Facebook will also help the blind “feel” photos shared on Facebook through artificial intelligence. The Bots will ‘read’ out the contents of the photos along with their location, which will help visually impaired users experience images too.
6. Taking about 360 photos, he said that Facebook will slowly integrate more VR features as he believes that people should be able to feel the photographs and videos. “We want to deliver that feeling like you there with someone always,” he said.
7. The Facebook CEO re-assured the users that they will never, ever have to pay for using Facebook and it will free for rest of everyone’s lifetime.
8. According to the CEO, the biggest mistake people make is that they open a company first, and think about the change later. “It is all about what change you want to make in the world,” Zuckerberg said.
9. Zuckerberg said Facebook is working on posting raw emotions of users as posts. It will be a bit like science fiction and might become a reality in the future, citing research reports. “We want to know what exactly you are thinking, so that you can share it on Facebook,” he said.
10. Jerry Seinfeld, an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer appeared as a special guest and asked Zuckerberg when he wakes up in the morning and what is the first thing he does. To this, the CEO replied that he is converting into a morning person Max, Zuckerberg’s daughter wakes his up. He also reacted on an allegations of being a lizard man where he with a grin said, “I’m going to have to go with no, I’m not a lizard.”
