Facebook's vice-president responds to criticism: Someone has to think about the future

Cox, Facebook's vice-president, Christopher Cox, responded to criticism of Facebook, the online edition of the US Wired magazine said today.　　This erroneous view, he argues, will occur in every major technological change.　　Here's the full article: For those who think Facebook and social networking are just wasting time and being overestimated, Facebook's vice president and early employee Cox have something to say. "This thing is very valuable.　　"said Cox. Cox graduated from Stanford University in 2004 and joined Facebook the following year.　　As the closest friend of Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he often makes a passionate speech praising Facebook for leading the course of human development.　　At the Facebook Places check-in Service conference held in August this year, Facebook's vice-president, Cox, said he nearly wept when he spoke about how Facebook would allow children to visit the places where their parents first kissed. "Technology doesn't have to alienate us," Cox said, "with the stories of people on Facebook, the real world Leap." "While Cox believes this, not everyone has the same view of Web services-including many of Facebook's 500 million users," he said.　　It is easy to use Facebook as a waste of time, and to scoff at its 35 billion dollar valuation.　　In fact, Newsweek columnist Dan Leons Dan Lyons just used the argument last week, sighing that Silicon Valley is no longer addressing advanced technical issues, and that the US is lagging behind in important technical areas. "Silicon Valley has become a casino. Smart kids come here with the idea of a rich night's wealth, but the entrepreneurial mindset they create doesn't seem to be in the same place as HP, Intel, Cisco and Apple, or even a target. "Facebook allows you to keep in touch with friends," Lyons writes. With a service of far-reaching significance to humanity, it can earn 1.5 billion of billions of dollars this year by launching indiscriminate advertising to 500 million of users. "After releasing a new feature of chatting with friends from different groups in Wednesday, Cox received an interview with Wired." In the interview, he immediately hit back at Lyons's remarks. (It should be noted that he has not read this article himself.) "The most important technological innovations in history are those that can speed up, or the media that allows one to share something with others in a cheaper or faster way." This is true from language to email, the Internet and mobile phones.　　"said Cox. Yes, his words areField play, and without prior preparation. "Think about how people make decisions. For example, who are you going to vote for, what do you think about the health care bill, what's happening in Afghanistan, how do I look at the big decisions about Thailand's news, what shoes I should wear, what music to listen to, whether I should take the job, where I eat tonight, and so on? "We all make decisions by talking to people we trust." "I think Facebook has changed the way people say ' I'm here, this is my story ' through an incoherent approach. ' Ability. Because of this, people can now find their biological mother, and Colombian people can organize millions of of people who have no money, no access to the media or even have nothing to rally and March. "This thing is very valuable. "It's as simple as making it easier for people to share things," Cox said. It may not sound as great as developing the next generation of 10Ghz processors, but on the macro level, interacting with each other can change everything. "Cox and Facebook product manager Carl Steagering (Carl sjogreen) in a small Facebook conference room to receive the" Wired "interview. After talking a lot of content, he suddenly stopped and turned to look out the green garden.　　He may be tired of the subject. Steagering once served on Google, and once founded a company called Nextstop.　　He added that although he had just joined Facebook, he believed that Facebook's vision was "far-reaching" and that it was only now capable of fulfilling that vision. Steagering said, Cox turned back. We found that he was not distracted, just sorting out his argument: "I want to say this: When the phone was born, we laughed at it." The comedy movie "The Clueless" is a mockery of the phone. Why would anyone need a cell phone? Now, we are all praising the iphone. It took only 15 years, from a thing we were all laughing at, to become ' the cornerstone of technological success '. "We make mistakes every time." We used to laugh at the radio and we laughed at all the new technology just because we were standing in the current media perspective. But someone has to think about the future.　　Cox concludes. He did not name names, but it was not difficult to guess who he called "someone". (Digging the shell net)