It was idealism that originally led me to Facebook. Looking back, I’m a little ashamed to admit that. This was in 2009, back when it still was possible to be optimistic about Facebook, in those innocent days when it still was possible to be hopeful about the internet.
It’s hard to admit you wanted to “save the world” without putting it in quotation marks, but that’s what I thought I’d been doing since my midtwenties. During those years, I was a diplomat for New Zealand at the United Nations.
