The new year is finally here and people all over the world are coming up with New Year's resolutions to help them improve their lives. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might be worth billions, but he is in fact much like everyone else. Like us, he too is trying to decide what his New Year's Resolutions should be this year. But unlike us, this year it seems he has enlisted the help of Facebook's vast user base to help him discover what his resolution should be for 2015.
While many of us decide to exercise more regularly, eat healthier or quit smoking, Zuckerberg's past resolutions have been a little more unusual. For example, he decided to learn Mandarin and even had the chance to put this knowledge to the test when he held a Chinese Q&A session in October 2014.
This year, however, he needs a little help with his resolutions. He has enlisted the help of Facebook's users asking them to suggest a "personal challenge" for him to undertake over the course of 2015.
All you have to do is post your suggestions publicly to his Facebook profile and he will take them into consideration. According to Zuckerberg, he typically "take(s) on a challenge to broaden (his) perspective" and "learn something about the world" beyond what he does as the man in charge of Facebook. "At our last town hall Q&A, someone asked me what my challenge will be for the new year and I said I'd love ideas from our community," Zuckerberg says. "I have an idea of what my next challenge might be, but I'm open to more ideas before the new year officially begins."
So far, Zuckerberg has received over 50,000 comments about his resolution post and the suggestions range from mundane to just plain crazy. One suggestion was for Zuckerberg to plant a tree for every new Facebook user who joins in 2015. Another suggested he run one mile each and every day regardless of the weather without running extra miles to make up for a skipped day. One user even suggested that Zuckerberg should delete anyone who sends game requests to users. We know these requests are annoying, but isn't that just a bit too harsh?
Some users have taken the opportunity to give Zuckerberg suggestions for Facebook itself, with one user suggesting a Sorry button so people could express sympathy instead of having to Like the post.
If you want to help the Facebook CEO with his 2015 resolutions, simply log onto Facebook and post your suggestion to his page. You never know, he just might decide to use your idea for his next personal challenge.
