Reference News Network reported on April 3 that the Hong Kong media said that Mark Zuckerberg's recent article on the future of Facebook attracted widespread attention. It is believed that his plan to make Facebook a “privacy-focused instant messaging and social networking platform” was inspired by WeChat, and its goal was to make Facebook a super app similar to WeChat. He also hinted that he should have learned from WeChat earlier, a fact that further confirms this theory.

According to a report on the Hong Kong “South China Morning Post” website on April 1, this is the first time that a Silicon Valley tech giant has said that China's tech ecosystem is worth learning from and competing with.

According to the report, Facebook is a digital ecosystem dominated by the West, while WeChat is a digital ecosystem dominated by China.

However, looking at the statement made by Zuckerberg and the initiatives proposed by Facebook, one of his current goals seems to be to make Facebook a smaller, easier to manage “Internet” that people will not leave, just like WeChat in China today.

The report said that in China, WeChat did not create a smaller Internet, but a more connected Internet, which focused on individual needs and daily use.

In addition, Silicon Valley is also turning its eyes to the East. The same goes for Berkshire Hathaway. At the company's annual shareholders' meeting in May 2018, the company's vice chairman Charlie Munger proposed that WeChat may cause trouble for credit card companies like American Express in the future.

(This article is from a reference source)