Mark Zuckerberg is so desperate to make Facebook relevant again he considered deleting …

Facebook’s antitrust trial in Washington D.C. is into its second week. And along with the usual reams of impenetrable legalese that dominate such proceedings, a few enlightening gems have emerged from the mountain of paperwork released by the U.S Federal Trade Commission. How about the fact that Meta and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea of deleting every Facebook user’s friends list? Yes, really.During a series of emails starting in 2022 and collated from court documents by TechCrunch, Zuckerberg discussed his fears concerning Facebook’s declining relevance. “Even though the FB app’s engagement is steady in many places, it feels like its cultural relevance is decreasing quickly,” Zuckerberg fretted.His solution? Delete your friends list and introduce a new structure around following rather than friending. “Friending feels out of vogue right now for at least a few reasons. First, a lot of people’s friend graphs are stale and not filled with the people they want to hear from or connect with,” he said.”One potentially crazy idea is to consider wiping everyone’s graphs and having them start again. This obviously carries the risk that if we did that then a lot of people just wouldn’t rebuild their graphs or would become less
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