The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World's Least Social People

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The first time I interviewed Mark Zuckerberg in person, he -- astoundingly -- thought he was doing a good job at being natural. After all, he was answering all of my questions in short single word bursts. Like many coders, he places efficiency next to Godliness. He built Facebook so you could be in-and-out within minutes, but come back many times a day -- even though this was anathema to anyone who knew anything about building an ad business online. Surely an interview was the same, right?

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