r/technology • u/NowThatsMalarkey • Feb 21 '25

Social Media Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover didn’t make people like him, study shows

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/mark-zuckerbergs-makeover-didnt-make-people-like-him-study-shows/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANAZlr-hGuhX1KqqPjBTkTce5FHYoTfozy456eW6cuu8YldzC5rpGfIlP07_a0jXdYc_eaaM6DrAXHX5G8e2xGc5SpbfTOxsJAwxR81w_TBGJlcjoLsVnZ8PWO1lNJgWgzm3MMz0BHDbCl-W5ehgrTueoJBD4LubB0aUd2ecJ39Y
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u/bizarro_kvothe Feb 21 '25

Does he need to be liked? Absolutely not. He likes to be liked. He enjoys being liked. He has to be liked. But it’s not like a compulsive need, like his need to be praised.

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u/fireblyxx Feb 21 '25

A couple of years ago Zuckerberg got it in his head that he could run for President, and was doing meet and greets in Iowa. Ofcourse, everyone thought he was a weird robot person and it didn't go anywhere. Now he's on this manosphere binge, but like Musk he just looks like he's trying to roleplay at masculinity.

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u/ejp1082 Feb 21 '25

he just looks like he's trying to roleplay at masculinity.

Seriously, for the life of me I'll never understand this.

The whole manosphere thing is baffling to me but it's especially baffling to see guys on that level buy into it.

Musk and Zuckerburg frickin won capitalism. They're friggin billionaires, part of the very small three comma club. They could do and have literally anything they want.

Yet somehow that makes them into more of an insecure man-baby rather than less of one? I just don't get it.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Feb 22 '25

I don't think it's insecure for Zuckberburg. I think he's just really really manipulative and has a need for dominance. So he just picks up and abandons values and hobbies and aesthetics according to what he thinks will serve him best. 

He was also beta testing being a wife guy for a minute. I think that's what we would have seen if Harris won.