扎克伯格晒出 2018 年心愿，这回他又变得严肃起来了

近日，Facebook 首席执行官扎克伯格公布了一年一度的个人挑战。与往年比如穿西服上班、每天交一个新朋友等的古怪型挑战任务不同，今年，小扎把 “整顿 Facebook ” 作为了年度任务。

扎克伯格 2018 挑战

Every year I take on a personal challenge to learn something new. I've visited every US state, run 365 miles, built an AI for my home, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin.

每年我都会列出“个人挑战”，去学习新的东西。过去几年，我访问了美国的每一个州，跑了365英里，为我家建了一个AI，读了25本书，学习了普通话。

I started doing these challenges in 2009. That first year the economy was in a deep recession and Facebook was not yet profitable. We needed to get serious about making sure Facebook had a sustainable business model. It was a serious year, and I wore a tie every day as a reminder.

2009年，我开始给自己 “立 flag”，每年完成一个挑战。那是全球金融海啸下，美国经济陷入严重衰退的第一年，当时Facebook还没有盈利，我们需要认真对待工作，来确保Facebook拥有可持续的商业模式。这是一个严肃的年头，我每天都会戴上领带，希望其能够提醒自己“严肃对待”。

Today feels a lot like that first year. The world feels anxious and divided, 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.

今天，我的感觉很像当时那个年头。整个世界焦虑又分裂，Facebook有很多工作要做：无论是保护我们的社区免受虐待和憎恨，捍卫民族国家的干涉，或确保在Facebook上花费的时间是高效值得的。

My personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing these important issues. We won't prevent all mistakes or abuse, but we currently make too many errors enforcing our policies and preventing misuse of our tools. If we're successful this year then we'll end 2018 on a much better trajectory.

我的2018年的挑战就是要集中精力解决这些重要问题。我们无法阻止所有的错误和滥用，但是我们现在已经犯了很多的错误。如果今年我们取得成功，那么年末我们将拥有一个更好的 2018。

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. These issues touch on questions of history, civics, political philosophy, media, government, and of course technology. I'm looking forward to bringing groups of experts together to discuss and help work through these topics.

这看起来可能不是一个人要面对的挑战。但我觉得，专注于这些问题会让我学到更多的东西。这些问题涉及历史，公民，政治哲学，媒体，政府，当然还有技术。我期待着将专家组聚在一起讨论和帮助解决这些问题。

For example, one of the most interesting questions in technology right now is about centralization vs decentralization. A lot of us got into technology because we believe it can be a decentralizing force that puts more power in people's hands. (The first four words of Facebook's mission have always been "give people the power".) Back in the 1990s and 2000s, most people believed technology would be a decentralizing force.

例如，现在最有趣的技术问题之一就是集中化与分散化。我们很多人从事科技工作，因为我们相信这可能是一个分权化的力量，能够将更多的权力放在人们的手中。Facebook使命的前四个词一直是给人力量（give people the power）。

But today, many people have lost faith in that promise. With the rise of a small number of big tech companies — and governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it.

早在20世纪90年代和2000年左右，大多数人认为技术将是一个分权化的力量。 但今天，很多人对这个承诺失去了信心。随着少数大型科技公司的兴起，以及政府利用技术来监督公民，现在有许多人认为，技术只是在把权力集中起来，而不是分散权力。

There are important counter-trends to this --like encryption and cryptocurrency -- that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands. But they come with the risk of being harder to control. I'm interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services.

现在已经出现了重要的逆向趋势——比如加密货币——它们从中央系统中获得权力，并将其返还到人们手中。但它们有可能难以控制。我有兴趣深入研究这些技术的积极和消极方面，以及如何最好地将它们用于我们的服务。

This will be a serious year of self-improvement and I'm looking forward to learning from working to fix our issues together.

这将是一个自我改进的严肃的一年，我期待着从工作中学习，一起解决我们的问题。

作为拥有 10 亿用户的全球性社交平台，Facebook 在2017 年爆发出了很多问题，比如承认俄罗斯人在网站上购买广告，并试图干预 2016 年美国大选，不断发生的骚扰事件以及会对用户心理健康造成潜在威胁等。