In an effort to connect with the 1.35 billion users of Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will host a live question-and-answer session where he will answer all of Facebook's users most burning questions.
The Facebook founder is taking a page out of Reddit's Ask Me Anything interviews and will hold his first community event where the public will be given the chance to ask him anything.
The session will be aired live over the event's Facebook page, Q&A with Mark, on Nov. 6, 2 PM Pacific Time and will last for approximately an hour. He also says that he will post a video of the session for users who will not be able to view during the allotted time.
In a post on his own Facebook profile, Zuckerberg explains that the event takes off after a similar question-and-answer session he holds with Facebook employees every Friday, where they can ask about anything from new products and services to roll out to the direction the company is going. Zuckerberg says the weekly sessions has helped him understand Facebook's workers and allowed the company's employees to create better services.
"I'm looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback," Zuckerberg says. "I think this will help make Facebook better, and I hope you'll tune in next week."
To submit a question, users can simply post it as a comment on the Q&A with Mark event page. To make sure Zuckerberg chooses to answer the question, users have to get other people to like their comment so that it goes to the top of the comments thread. As of press time, more than 3,600 people have already submitted their questions, but that does not yet take into account the similar questions and feedback that some people will most likely have.
Current top questions range from the serious to the seriously important, such as TechCrunch's Josh Constantine's "Has there been a reduction in young US teen engagement with Facebook over the last year? What's your response to surveys that say there has been?" to Kasey Fanton's "What beer were you drinking when you created Facebook. This is a MUST know."
Several users have also posted feedback on the desire to bring back organic reach for pages, which has seen a decline in recent months as more people post content on Facebook. Other concerns include the automatic posting of Facebook's Messenger app on users' smartphones, which irks people who are very particular about the app's permissions. Other people want to know how much time Zuckerberg spends on Facebook, if he was ever tempted to shut down Facebook for an hour just to see what happens, and how many kilograms are there in an Instagram.
