Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently took the time to sit down with The New York Times to discuss a number of topic, ranging from the perceived lack of innovation with his website to thoughts on new apps, such as Secret. He admitted that some ideas weren’t exactly big ones – Facebook Home immediately came to mind – but there were valid reasons because of which.
“The reception was much slower than we expected,” he said. “When you install it, it’s really active, and if it does anything that you don’t like, then you’ll uninstall it.”
He is particularly fond about some other ideas, such as Graph Search. “I think that’s a five year thing,” he added. “We have to think about it over a longer period of time.”
Regarding apps based on anonymity, such as Secret, Zuckerberg stated that Facebook isn’t exactly a recipe for success with other companies. “I’m not going to say it can’t work, because I think that is too extreme,” he said. “But I tend to think that some of these interactions are better rooted in some senses of building relationships.” Because of the lack of identity Secret carries, “building an understanding of people” is quite difficult.
“So anonymity is not the first thing that we’ll go do,” he concluded.
Source: The Verge
