Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.