Facebook Mission Statement

Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. It is all about the relationships with people. The vision is that they build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this they are extending people 's capacity to build and maintain relationships. By helping people form these connections, Facebook hopes to revamp the way people spread and consume information. They think the world 's information infrastructure should resemble the social graph, a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather than the monolithic, top-down structure that has existed to date. They believe that giving people control over what they share is a fundamental principle of this rewiring. “In the end Mark Zuckerberg 's vision is to empower the individual. For him, the most important thing that Facebook can do is to give people tools that enable them to more efficiently …show more content…
They have set the bar as far as social interaction online has developed in the last ten years. Facebook’s consistent innovation and Hacker Way of development has let the company build resources and capabilities that have given them a competitive advantage. They have been working on developing new products and ways for users to communicate in order to maintain and build a competitive advantage. Introduction of features like Subscribe, Timeline, Spotify integration and a new app platform, the company has been able to adapt how users use the web. The engineers they hire go through a special in house training, where they learn the code base, tools and approach. This allow them to have everyone working together to make changes