Anything will eventually be tested by time, and Zuckerberg also knows that neither he nor Ahn Joon-hyuk can do much. The launch of "News Feed" is a deep dig into Facebook's basic rules, and you can't just be afraid to cancel this plan just because users are not happy - without the concept of "openness", people no longer share their information, in that case, the network will not exist, it is no longer Facebook, but another blogging service!

"Okay, don't think too much, let's go down. Pressing his shoulder, Ahn Junhyuk smiled.

Zuckerberg nodded, and when he saw Ahn Jun-hyuk already walking out the door and was about to follow, he remembered something again: "Wait, Ahn, your glasses." ”

“…… Thank you, I forgot about it again. ”

"Man, what do you always like to wear glasses for occasions like this?"

He took the flat glasses that Zuckerberg helped to get and put them on, and when he heard his inquiry, Ahn Joon-hyuk shrugged: "Cover my eyes, it will make people hate me a little less." ”

"Does it work?" Zach also knew that Ahn Jun-hyuk's eyes were sharp, which would give the illusion of aggressiveness to the outside world.

"Maybe it works, I don't know, at least one person said I looked a little kinder with my glasses. ”

"Oh?

"A girl named YoonA. ”

While talking, the two went downstairs.

Today is September 1st.

Although Facebook has a spokesperson, it is similar to the whole network open. For technology companies, if you want to attend the Technology Forum, then the chief technology officer will preside over the speech, and if you are attending a major announcement event, it will be the CEO.

Downstairs, in the Four Seasons showroom, there are already many journalists and Silicon Valley observers, and perhaps some Wall Street representatives.

The last half a month. Facebook is one of the hottest topics on the internet. The company, like their website, is always doing things that challenge convention and stand out from the crowd, whether it's a hyped rejection of a Yahoo takeover or its sudden announcement of a full opening.

In its fame spread with some time ago. already well-known case. This time, the press conference. It is no longer as shabby as the last time it publicly rejected Yahoo's takeover resolution, not counting Silicon Valley and Wall Street representatives, only from the press. It's no longer confined to the San Francisco area, or even to the local California media, and even major newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post have sent teams with relevant sections and columns.

Sitting in this bustling hall, John paid attention to his colleagues from the big newspaper in front of him, slightly helpless.

The best place to ask questions at the press conference has been taken up by the big newspapers, and although the San Jose Courier, where he currently works, is also a well-known organization owned by News Corp., it is still a small corner compared to the other giants, and there is another local media outlet, the San Francisco Chronicle, who has the same fate as him.

When this thought was turning in his mind, not far from his right, a middle-aged man noticed his gaze and snorted expressionlessly, which was regarded as a greeting.

"Hey, you actually gave me a look. ”

John smiled, not minding. He knew the middle-aged man, and the two newspapers he worked for were the largest in the local area, and both were special writers and writers for the newspaper's Internet-related columns, and they naturally intersected occasionally, but although the relationship was not good before, it was never like this, and it was all because of Facebook and its new CEO.

Rhodes is the writer who initially expressed dissatisfaction with Ahn Junhyuk and Facebook, and John, who is a supporter of Facebook, is very interested in Ahn Junhyuk's hacking spirit, but unfortunately these days, he has not made an appointment with Ahn Junhyuk for a deep conversation or an interview, the South Korean seems to be very busy, he called Facebook several times, and the other party said that President Ahn has a lot of official duties and does not accept external inquiries for the time being.

“…… John, John!"

The sound of dozens of people talking around was very noisy, and he vaguely heard someone calling him, John turned his head, and then found that there was a row of seats in the back, and a friend who was originally in San Jose and had jumped to the Oakland Tribune last year was waving to him, and when he turned around, the other party smiled and squeezed over.

"John, I knew you were coming, I've read several of your reviews, old man, you're arguing with Rhodes in the column for Facebook!"

"It's that he speaks badly. John pouted disapprovingly, and then asked, "Kent, aren't you in Oakland? Why did you come here, I remember that Oakland paid very little attention to Silicon Valley." ”

The man named Kent shrugged: "It's just a good time, who called this Facebook a hot topic recently, our life column is doing a comment on the Internet ecology, and I'm going around to help that columnist collect materials!"

Hearing the sarcasm of the so-called "columnist" in his words, John did not answer, and it seemed that the other party's work in Auckland was not going well, and then there was a natural babbling complaint, and he was not interested in listening to those things.

Standing on tiptoe and looking ahead, John found that the staff on the podium had already prepared all the equipment, so he took advantage of Kent to speak, and said, "Kent, hurry back to your place, the press conference is about to begin." ”

"It doesn't matter if I'm standing here, lo and behold, there's no one squeezing my spot. Kent disagreed, "John, don't take it too seriously, it's just a press conference." ”

…… There is no common language anymore......

John shook his head and ignored him because the press conference had already begun.

In the hall that was originally used as an exhibition hall, several bright lights have been turned on, illuminating the podium in detail, when Ahn Joon-hyuk, dressed in a suit and wearing glasses, and Mark Zuckerberg, who is dressed casually, appear together. The people who were still noisy were silent for a moment, but they were followed by the sound of the shutter and the flickering of the fill light like a storm.

Ahn Joon-hyuk read the speech in his hand.

I don't know what other people's senses are, at least John likes to watch the appearance of this Korean when he speaks, maybe because he is an idol star, even if he reads a formulaic speech, he will not make people feel bored.

His English is standard, with a faint Californian accent, and he seems to be particularly adept at grasping syllable variations. The speed of speech increases, slows down, and pauses. The combination of these changes makes people involuntarily listen carefully to what he is talking about, and more importantly, even if they have only seen Ahn Joon-hyuk speak twice. John was aware of it, too. He always kept formulaic things as short as possible. That made his statement very concise and clear.

On the podium, Ahn Joon-hyuk was reading the speech, and John wrote down his sensory analysis in a notebook, which he prepared to use when compiling the character information for Ahn Joon-hyuk in the future - this was after he found out that Ahn Jun-hyuk was a star. The idea just appeared, why would a Korean celebrity come to the United States to be the CEO of an Internet company? What kind of story is behind his fame and his development in Korean business?

All of this intrigued John.

Seeing what he was recording, Kent, who was standing next to him, whispered, "Hey, man, you're studying this Korean?

John was indifferent until he finished memorizing the last line of the last line, and then shrugged his shoulders and asked: "Who knows if this small company will become a big business?" Who knows if he will become a big star in the future?"

Kent rolled his eyes, and at this time, Ahn Junhyuk on the podium had also finished reading his speech, in the strong light, and the flashes that lit up from time to time, he raised his head, and his eyes hidden under the lenses scanned the crowd below, his expression was calm, confident, and calm: "Now it's time to ask questions." ”

With his words, the audience suddenly changed from quiet to noisy, and the press officer waiting for the side stepped off the podium, and while maintaining order, he ordered a female reporter.

John in the rear, like the people around him, withdrew his raised hand, lifted his toes to look over, and then unsurprisingly found that it was the New York Times.

"Mr. Ahn Joon-hyuk, as far as we know, Facebook's existing users are extremely opposed to the full opening scheme, has the Facebook team considered such a situation?"

…… Pitfall......

Having worked in journalism for many years, John knew that there was a cat hidden in such a question, and if she had thought about it, she could write that Facebook ignored the wishes of users and exercised dictatorship, and if she hadn't thought about it, she could also write that Facebook was complacent and completely ignored the interests of old users, and anyway, no matter what, she could make up enough eye-catching content.

Kent next to him chuckled: "This kid is in trouble." ”

John didn't speak, just paid attention to Ahn Junhyuk's expression on the stage, the idol star CEO from South Korea, who didn't seem to notice the danger inside, smiled when he heard the words, and replied: "Thank you Ms. Rachel for your question, in fact, existing users don't have to worry about this question at all, the entire Facebook team, including me, Mark, and our technical officer, Engineers, we have always put the user experience first, the opening of Facebook may bring some impact, but the impact is not as big as users think, although our social concept is to build a huge network to connect people, but its own model is not a simple multi-party interaction, but a cascade, affecting the factors that affect people's connection, including language, community, school, hobbies, etc...... We can guarantee that the friends you can find are the ones you really want to find. ”

Listening to his explanation, John breathed a sigh of relief, and Kent muttered something softly beside him, probably because he was a little upset that he didn't see the joke, and he didn't bother to pay attention to him, and then the press officer over there began to order people again.

Time progressed, and the media in front of the queue stood up one by one and asked questions one by one, while Ahn Jun-hyuk on the stage answered them one by one, sometimes when it came to technical aspects, Zuckerberg would also come to the stage to explain on his behalf.

The atmosphere of the whole conference was warm and not chaotic, and it was quite successful, but as time went on, John's mood became more and more depressed, or rather, like him, the mood was not very high.

Probably only Kent didn't care, anyway, he just came to join in the fun. When Ahn Joon-hyuk finished answering another question and announcing "next" on the podium, Kent saw that John didn't even bother to raise his hand, so he couldn't help but persuade: "Old man, don't be like this, it's just an interview." ”

John didn't speak, he was looking at the time, the press conference was almost over, and today was destined to be fruitless.

Sighing. He put away his notebook. Just as he was about to leave, he heard Ahn Junhyuk's voice on the stage: "The press conference is almost over, let me do the following...... Mr. or Ms. from the San Jose Courier, please raise your hand. ”

Wow!

The spectacular sight of dozens of people in front of him turning back startled John, who was in a daze. He could barely believe his ears. While subconsciously raising his hand. While pointing to himself: "Me?"

There was a buzz, someone chuckled, and someone whispered. On the stage, Ahn Junhyuk didn't show a strange look, just nodded: "Yes, you are ......" The press officer leaned into his ear and said something, and then people saw his expression become abrupt and smiled: "It turned out to be Mr. John, thank you for your support to Facebook and me in those issues!"

"Uh...... No, you're welcome......" John subconsciously shook his head.

"Well, Mr. John, please ask questions!"

After all, he has been doing journalism work for a long time, although he was too unexpected and some behaved at a loss, but John took a few deep breaths and quickly adjusted his mentality.

His question had been prepared for a long time, and it wasn't about hacking — though he wanted to ask that — and it was another bigger question he had about when he researched Facebook.

"May I ask Mr. Ahn Joon-hyuk......" John asked after a moment of reflection, "...... The full opening up is obviously a major strategic breakthrough for Facebook, so can I also think that the 'news feed' launched on the same day as the full opening up is also another major strategy of Facebook? You said earlier that the significance of full opening to the Internet is to invite Internet users to actively interact and create content freely, so what is the significance of 'news feed' to the Internet?"

The moment he asked, the entire hall fell silent.

Regarding the "News Feed", it was not that no one mentioned it before, and the "Washington Post" asked if it would have an impact on people's privacy protection, but Ahn Junhyuk did not answer positively at that time, but unexpectedly, John brought it up again from another angle.

In the silence, on the stage, An Junhe was silent.

After a moment of silence, just when the quiet people thought that Ahn Junhyuk was going to refuse to answer again, and John's eyes gradually changed from expectation to helplessness, Ahn Junhyuk's clear voice sounded again: "Before answering this question, I want to tell a little story." ”

The light shone brightly and intensely, and in the center of the light, Ahn Jun-hyuk took off his glasses, held the edge of the podium with one hand, put the other hand in his pocket, took two steps back, and looked like a thoughtful memory: " A few months ago, I acquired an entertainment company, and when I checked the company's personnel file, I found an interesting thing about an employee who was fired before my merger, and the reason for the dismissal in the file was that the employee uploaded false information in an 'encyclopedia' service entry based on Wiki hypertext to damage the company's reputation. ”

"Of course, that piece of false information didn't cause any damage, and the reason why the employee was fired was because he and his colleague had a drunken conversation and leaked their mouths, and I saw it at the time, and I just took it as an interesting little story, but ......"

He pondered, tapping lightly on the podium with his fingers, and the attention of the audience was focused on him, especially John, with the slight sound of the moment.

He quickly jotted down every word of Ahn Joon-hyuk.

“…… But after coming to Palo Alto, coming to Facebook, and getting in touch with the Internet industry more deeply, I thought about it again, and I wondered, why did that employee do that? Or did he think about it because he thought it was fun? Let's expand the scope and think about how many people in this world, in the world where the Internet can reach, how many people are like that employee, just because of fun or pranks, posting false information on the Internet to slander? Let's go a little deeper, what's wrong with the Internet?"

Buzz –

There was a lot of talk and whispering.

In fact, the argument about the sociology of the Internet, which is being used as a false identity for people, to provide freedom for legitimate or illegal purposes, has been carried out more than once in major newspapers and magazines, which is the most complex and difficult social problem to solve in the 12 years of the great development of the Internet.

On stage, Ahn Jun-hyuk ignored the interference below and continued: "All media friends and professionals, I believe they have already understood my purpose in bringing up this little story. Ladies and gentlemen, the Internet is becoming more and more unreal, and now almost everyone can mask their identity on the Internet, or exaggerate their identity, to make themselves completely different from reality. And when they are able to abandon their real identity, the most powerful imagination has no power to restrain - some people make the Internet interesting and colorful because of this imagination, such as Yang Zhiyuan, Larry Page and other Internet pioneers, and others, because of this imagination to cause more harm and more loss. ”

"Here, I would like to mention once again that Mark Zuckerberg's favorite "Aeneid", that ideal city, he and I both have the same philosophy, we both believe that freedom should not be disordered, and protection should not be excessive, especially now that the Internet is becoming more and more deeply embedded in our lives and more and more closely connected with the real world, it is time to establish an order - and the establishment of order must first be made public!"

No one thought before that a question from "News Feed" would lead to such a grand goal in Ahn Junhyuk's mouth.

Damn it!

The San Jose Courier has dug up big news and big topics!

At this moment, I don't know how many people looked at John with envy, but they were obviously envious early.

"Thirteen years ago, Mr. Pete Steiner, who wrote for The New Yorker and was later introduced by Mr. Bill Gates into the book "The Road to the Future", said in a cartoon: On the Internet, no one knows that you are a dog!"

This classic famous sentence, almost no one knows the way, and there was a sudden silence below, everyone looked up, surprised, stunned, shocked, and shocked to meet that kind of expression, Ahn Junhyuk's tone was excited, and his eyes were sharp:

"This great quote started the 12-year heyday of the Internet! And today, I'm here to answer Mr. John: What Facebook is doing is to let everyone know if it's a person or a dog on the other side of the network!" (To be continued......