Everyone in our team has developed a habit of ensuring every feature and every service has a meaning or a dream behind it. If a feature is made for just gaining traffic, and it doesn’t provide value to users, then it’ll have problems, it won’t last. We think about the meaning behind every detail of everything we do. This is a reason we’ve been able... See more

Users will continue to change every year. We’ll face new users and new needs.

The number of users is always limited, service is unlimited... In times like this, innovation is the only solution for the future... So, finding what kind of needs users will have in the future is our objective as we sit at one billion users.

If I could turn back time and had the chance to do Moments again, I’d make the album private. From a product standpoint, Moments and its album can be entirely separated. A photo could be stored in your album as a memento to look back at later, or it could also be posted and displayed on Moments. It was a mistake made during development to combine... See more

So we need to think of a new way to help users be braver about expressing themselves.

Although Moments is an efficient socialization tool, it can be stressful when it comes to expressing oneself.

I want to emphasize this design – in Moments, you can only see the activity of mutual friends. This means that the discussions you engage in involve friends who all know each other. This makes socialization more fulfilling as there are more friends engaging in meaningful interactions.

You spend half an hour every day walking through the town square. While walking, you see groups of people chatting and discussing different things as you pass. You know these people, and you can stop and join their discussion. You also realize that you know every single person in the group.

You can go over to say ‘hi’ or join them for a while. You... See more

If there was no internet, whenever we wanted social interaction we would get together for a big lunch or attend some party, where we would then say ‘hi’ to familiar friends, but it wouldn’t be very efficient because the requirements of time and location create restrictions.

What’s the basic essence of Moments? Really, Moments created a new location... See more