A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user's friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app. — Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash
Last year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking.
Zuckerberg, who had grown Facebook from a dorm-room project to a US$1.5 trillion (RM6.65 trillion) company that he renamed Meta, wanted to bring back some of the original rationale for the social network, or what he called “OG Facebook” vibes, Alison said in an interview. After years of adding features, the executives felt that some of Facebook’s key functions were being drowned out.
