Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg recently gave a commencement speech at Harvard, which is ironic since he dropped out of the school upon creating the social media site. During the speech, Zuckerberg noted how people are longing for connection that they used to get from work, church, or community. He also said that this is what Facebook is meant to replace.
According to Zuckerberg, people in the older generation could get up every day because they had a sense of purpose, PC Mag reports. They got this sense of purpose from having a job, going to church, or participating in community activities. The Facebook boss then said that these options have been on the decline thanks to technology. Thankfully the social network is here to help.
"When our parents graduated, that sense of purpose reliably came from your job, your church, your community," Zuckerberg told the crowd of Harvard graduates. "But today, technology and automation are eliminating jobs. Membership in a lot of communities has been declining, and a lot of people are feeling disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void in their lives."
Zuckerberg and his team are apparently under the impression that Facebook is the key to filling this void, thus helping people cope with their depression. This seems to be a contradiction to a recent study involving one of its acquisitions in Instagram, which apparently causes quite the case of the blues.
At some point, Zuckerberg also revealed at least some of his plans to supposedly give the world a sense of purpose through Facebook, TechCrunch reports. The tech billionaire basically told the students that are just graduating from Harvard to create opportunities for others instead of themselves.
Facebook’s future projects directly relate to this subject with providing “equal opportunity” and launching “big projects” in order to employ workers who will be displaced by automation. Zuckerberg believes that his social media company is basically the deciding factor in shaping the future of mankind.


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