Zuckerberg vows to fix issues with Facebook

Four days into the new year, Mark Zuckerberg is resolving to spend 2018 fixing issues with Facebook.

The Facebook chief executive explained in a post Thursday that every year he makes it his mission to “learn something new” — traveling across the country, perhaps, or learning a new language, or building a robot for his home.

This year, he is turning his attention to ... Facebook.

“The world feels anxious and divided,” he said, “and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it’s protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.

“My personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing these important issues.”

Or, as much of the internet said in response, Zuckerberg is challenging himself to spend 2018 doing his job.

Zuckerberg admitted Facebook makes “too many errors enforcing our policies and preventing misuse of our tools.”

“If we’re successful this year,” he said, “we’ll end 2018 on a much better trajectory.

“This may not seem like a personal challenge on its face, but I think I’ll learn more by focusing intensely on these issues than I would by doing something completely separate.”

It’s a resolution that probably should be the goal for any business leader, as more than a few tech observers pointed out.

“Zuck’s personal challenge this year isn’t about learning Mandarin or killing his own food. He’s going to do what CEOs do: Fix the problems at his company,” Recode’s Kurt Wagner said on Twitter.

In response to Zuckerberg’s post, thousands of commenters urged the Facebook founder to find a way to prevent hacking, cyberbullying and social media scams to help make it a safer space for users.