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Read Mark Zuckerberg’s full 6,000-word letter on Facebook’s global ambitions - Recode

This is a time when many of us around the world are reflecting on how we can have the most positive impact. I am reminded of my favorite saying about technology: "We always overestimate what we can do in two years, and we underestimate what we can do in ten years." We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately, but we can all start working on the long term today. In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us.

What teens are like in 2016

On average, the teens we spoke with received smartphones from their parents when they were 11 years old. At their youngest, they received phones when they were 8

The Social Media Morality Debate

This would suggest that morality, as a construct, is designed to help communities work. A large number of individuals living together in close proximity need to operate within a broad, accepted, powerful set of rules that goes beyond the obviousness of the law. Laws are mutable. They evolve along lines of popular consensus and it is popular consensus that makes them enforceable. Morality goes deeper than that. It operates along our unspoken understanding of “good” and “bad” and as such it elicits an instant, unthinking and powerful judgement.

Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think | Wait But Why

Our bodies and minds are built to live in a tribe in 50,000BC, which leaves modern humans with a number of unfortunate traits, one of which is a fixation with tribal-style social survival in a world where social survival is no longer a real concept. We’re all here in 2014, accompanied by a large, hungry, and easily freaked-out woolly mammoth who still thinks it’s 50,000BC.