Success Quote by Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg’s bland little confession is doing a lot of work. “I do everything on my phone” sounds like an offhand admission of modern life, the kind of thing you’d hear while waiting for coffee. That’s the point: it normalizes total dependence as casual habit, not as a business model. The second clause - “as a lot of people do” - is the real payload. It’s a rhetorical shield, turning a personal claim into a consensus, sliding responsibility from a billionaire architect of attention to an anonymous “everyone.”

Context matters because Zuckerberg isn’t describing a quirky preference; he’s selling an ecosystem in which the phone is the primary interface to identity, relationships, news, and commerce. Coming from the man who helped build the most influential social platform of the smartphone era, the line reads like strategic solidarity: he’s not above you, he’s with you. That posture blunts critiques about surveillance, addiction, and algorithmic manipulation by framing the device as neutral and inevitable. If “a lot of people” do it, then it’s not a choice engineered by product design - it’s just culture.

There’s also a subtle credibility play. Tech CEOs are often accused of living differently than their users (nannies, assistants, detox weekends). Saying he runs his life through the same glowing rectangle is an attempt to reclaim authenticity, to imply, I trust this world enough to inhabit it fully. It’s simple, disarming, and quietly self-serving: a motto for frictionless dependency, delivered as small talk.