When filed to go public in early 2012, Mark Zuckerberg noted that the social network wasn’t originally designed to be a company. The new mission is intended to reflect that Facebook’s responsibility has “expanded,” Zuckerberg said. “We’ve been thinking about what our responsibility is in the world,” Zuckerberg said in an interview. Zuckerberg said Facebook has set a new goal to help 1 billion people join meaningful groups. Although the company's new mission emphasizes community, Zuckerberg seems to view the individual as the immediate, critical unit for change at scale.

Source: Forbes June 22, 2017 16:19 UTC