"Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now"
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The subtext is a quiet redefinition of what counts as disadvantage. It is not that you miss party photos; it is that you lose access to the modern infrastructure of visibility. Zuckerberg casts Facebook as the default venue where social and professional legitimacy is increasingly decided. "The audience that they want to connect to" sounds empowering, but it also echoes the platform's core promise: we will route your relationships through our system, translate them into data, and make you feel in control while you do it.
Context matters: this is the voice of a young tech founder in an era when social media was still marketed as liberation rather than obligation. The line anticipates the future social bargain: constant self-curation in exchange for belonging. It also normalizes the creeping anxiety beneath the feed - that if you are not present, you are not quite real, and someone else gets to define you while you're gone.
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Zuckerberg, Mark. (2026, January 15). Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/think-about-what-people-are-doing-on-facebook-172666/
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Zuckerberg, Mark. "Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/think-about-what-people-are-doing-on-facebook-172666/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/think-about-what-people-are-doing-on-facebook-172666/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.



