Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech in Chicago last week, laying out a new mission for the platform. I can't find a video or transcript of it, just news stories with quotations. But those few quotations are far-reaching and revealing.
They begin with two sound premises. One of them arises from the Bowling Alone thesis. “It's striking that for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter. That's a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else.”
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