

Zuckerberg also fielded a question about "The Social Network," Hollywood’s 2010 rendition of Facebook’s founding story.

"If we wanted to focus on really serving this well, we had to build a dedicated and focused experience." "Messaging is one of the few things that people actually do more than social networking," he said. The top messaging apps on the market focus on messaging alone, he added - not social networking or a News Feed, which the Facebook flagship app features. Zuckerberg, why did you force us to install Messenger?įacebook has big plans for messaging, and a product built within the flagship app didn’t give Facebook the flexibility it needs to build out new features, Zuckerberg explained. The first question on the docket, and the most popular question posted online, pertained to Facebook’s decision a few months back to require users to download its standalone messaging app, Messenger, in order to send and receive messages through Facebook on mobile.

Mark Zuckerberg hosted a public Q&A for the first time Thursday, taking questions from Facebook users as well as community members from the areas around the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. What does the general public want to know most about Facebook? What the heck happened with that obnoxious Messenger split?!
