You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg or Priscilla Chan on Facebook

You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg or Priscilla Chan on Facebook

7 years ago
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https://qz.com/1066804/facebook-fb-wont-let-you-block-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan/

If you’ve logged onto Facebook in the past couple of days, and you happen to follow the platform’s founder Mark Zuckerberg or his wife, Priscilla Chan, you might have seen their announcement of the birth of their second daughter, August, born in—you guessed it—August (no day specified in the post).

The couple welcomed August’s arrival with a public letter, a note about childhood that was lovely if not quite as grandiose as the one they had written for their firstborn (surely providing fodder for future siblings rivalry). Because Facebook is all about minding other people’s business, you may be fine that the post (and the 145,000 comments it generated) sits on your timeline. You might also be interested in reading all of Zuckerberg’s updates about his presidential-like journey through America, his musing about the value of communities, and his updates on Facebook growth that make it sound like a social enterprise, rather than a business worth billions of dollars. But if you are not particularly taken by the Zuckerberg-Chan family posts, you have essentially no way to make sure you don’t see them.

You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg or Priscilla Chan on Facebook

Aug 31, 2017, 6:04pm UTC
https://qz.com/1066804/facebook-fb-wont-let-you-block-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan/ >If you’ve logged onto Facebook in the past couple of days, and you happen to follow the platform’s founder Mark Zuckerberg or his wife, Priscilla Chan, you might have seen their announcement of the birth of their second daughter, August, born in—you guessed it—August (no day specified in the post). >The couple welcomed August’s arrival with a public letter, a note about childhood that was lovely if not quite as grandiose as the one they had written for their firstborn (surely providing fodder for future siblings rivalry). Because Facebook is all about minding other people’s business, you may be fine that the post (and the 145,000 comments it generated) sits on your timeline. You might also be interested in reading all of Zuckerberg’s updates about his presidential-like journey through America, his musing about the value of communities, and his updates on Facebook growth that make it sound like a social enterprise, rather than a business worth billions of dollars. But if you are not particularly taken by the Zuckerberg-Chan family posts, you have essentially no way to make sure you don’t see them.