Mark Zuckerberg once thought about deleting all your friends on Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, studied to delete Facebook friends in an attempt to enhance the cultural importance of the social network. This “crazy idea”, as it was called Exec at the time, was Monday As part of the evidence presented during the first day of the US government’s anti -monopoly trial against Mita.

In one message to Meta employees in 2022, Zuckerberg suggested the strategy of “Scan the graphs for all and made them start again” as a possible solution to the low importance of Facebook in social media. The idea was that forcing everyone to re -create charts for their friends can encourage users to re -connect to the social network while rebuilding their social prayers.

Others in Meta, including the Facebook president, Tom Alison, retreated to the plan, and in the end the strategy was not implemented.

However, the evidence presented in the trial revealed that Zuckerberg considered other strategies to maintain the importance of his company, including the transfer of Facebook from a model based on friends to a follow -up model. This also did not come.

In recent weeks, focus Facebook again on communicating friends, renewing the tab of her friends In an attempt to return to “OG Facebook“The new tab focuses on friendship requests and the content of friends only, including their posts, balls, stories, and birthdays.

“I think there are a lot of opportunities to make (Facebook) more culturally influence than it is today,” Zukberg told investors during the Meta Q424 profit call about its main goals for the next year. “I think some of this will return to how to use Facebook originally a day.”