Mark Zuckerberg`s Agrarian Avatar
Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of the world's most popular social network, a young billionaire and generous philanthropist, who sets new trends with each of his posts on Facebook. Every day hundreds of thousands of people out of 91-million army of his subscribers scattered around the world, make reposts from Mark's page. And Mark himself easily responds to comments and can unexpectedly drop in to you for dinner as a secret guest.
From time to time, the network spreads photos with the Internet genius plunging into rural life: he drives a retro tractor, plants gardens in Dallas, milks a cow in Wisconsin and dwells on the turmeric sprouting in Hawaii. What is it: an attempt to try out a new life style or another one of Mark`s goals? Latifundist.com has closely studied the agrarian hobby of Zuckerberg and suggests readers to match the relevant hyperlinks and suitable hashtags.
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As it turned out, the Head of Facebook rarely stays in the office, inventing all kinds of Internet tools for the social network users. To be more precise, he does all this, but in the process of traveling around the world, after talking to his family and outdoor activities in the nature. Perhaps that is why the 32-year-old billionaire spent about $100 million on the vast territory of one of the Hawaiian Islands. Now, among other things, Mark has his own Pila'a Beach with gorgeous white sand on the north shore of the Kauai island, also known as the Garden Island.
The sofa experts say that the 750 acres of Zuckerberg's land host a former sugarcane plantation with an area of more than 145 hectares and a processing plant, as well as an operating farm, where only organic products are grown. There is very little information on this in the Internet, nevertheless, at the end of December, Mark posted on his personal page a series of photographs that depict local farmers at work on crops of turmeric, in orchards, etc.
Moreover, he noted that he was trying to support the islanders in every possible way, including the local education and the agricultural center of the community. Mark accompanied the agricultural post with cute photos of his daughter Max, actively reaching out to the farm animals, namely the pig, chickens and other of farm inhabitants.
However, not everything is so smooth. Occasionally the comments include links to articles about the scandals with the native population of the island, who are allegedly dissatisfied with invasion on their land, and they are especially dissatisfied with the fence which protected his possessions. Zuckerberg prefers not to react to Internet trolls, but he does not ban those comments, and he receives likes from Hawaiians and those who wish him luck in all agrarian undertakings. Some neighbors-islanders immediately try to get advice from a millionaire about the production of cocoa and meat steaks.
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In May, Mark Zuckerberg visited the village of Blanchardville in Wisconsin in the north of the United States. There he not only participated in the village feast, but also worked actively on the Jed Gant family farm. Mark shared that the visit to the agrarians in Wisconsin created many new impressions: for the first time in his life he fed the calf, drove a 70-year-old tractor and drank natural rather than packaged milk. The billionaire was amazed by the family dinner, as everyone gathered around the table at ... noon.
The conclusion Zuckerberg came to on the farm is that if you get up at 4 a.m., the whole daily schedule is significantly shifted. The tractor, which Mark managed to drive through the farmlands, has already turned 78 years old, it was inherited by the owner of the farm from his great-grandfather, but it looks fine. This is where the fifth generation of the Gant family live, growing meat and dairy cattle, cultivating the land.
The head of the family Jed left home just once when he celebrated his own wedding 36 years ago. The American can not give up his farm — he personally milks 30 cows twice a day on the farm, not to mention other duties. All members of this family comply with the strict discipline. Everyone works every single day, all week. Mark noted on his Facebook page that the agrarian, despite declining demand for cheese and milk, did not take subsidies from the government, since he does not want to be obliged to someone. The Gantt family is incredibly proud of their farm. Jed calls agriculture "the greatest work", and he is happy that his children are growing with the same attitude to life. Their self-confidence is impressive, Zuckerberg pointed out.
In addition, Mark's subscribers were interested in whether he had taken home a two-week-old kitten, for the first time in his life he had to hold such baby in his arms. The spotted kitten stayed on the farm, however, instead, the Head of Facebook promised to bring his wife Priscilla a lot of fresh cheese.
The brightness of Zuckerberg's impressions is evidenced by his correspondence with commentators who were anxious to ask a lot of questions about the trip that day. Well, maybe this is not the last immersion of the Internet guru in the agricultural sphere. Speaking of his life, the billionaire sometimes cites Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler". Perhaps, this saying contains the secret of his success — do simple things creatively as much as you need today.
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- A few years ago, Mark shocked the public with a statement that he would only eat the animals killed by himself personally. The lobster, chicken, pig and goat were the first victims of the Internet genius. However, according to rumors, Mark quickly rejected this idea.
- Every year Zuckerberg comes up with new tasks. 2009 was the year of wearing neckties. 2010 was the year of studying the Chinese language. 2017, apparently, is the year of travelling around the country and new professions, which the millionaire is trying on. 2018 may well be the year of full immersion in agriculture.
- Mark is colorblind. He does not distinguish between green and red colors, but he is well versed in all shades of blue. Apparently, that's why Facebook is designed in this color pattern.
- The Social Network movie about Zuckerberg`s success story with a budget of $40 million, grossed $215 million at the box office. Although, according to Mark himself, the real story of creating Facebook was pretty boring: "We were just sitting at the computers for 6 years writing the code".
- Zuckerberg constantly speaks about the importance of global development strategy. "If you want to help people receive food, medical care, education and employment anywhere in the world, you need to connect the whole world", he said. The Head of Facebook gives the example of farmers in Ethiopia or Tanzania, who use the Internet to check procurement prices for agricultural products, their stock in warehouses and weather insurance.
- Mark voiced himself in one part of the popular series "The Simpsons" (season 22, episode 2).
- $3 billion was donated by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan for the purpose of fundamental scientific research, which aims to heal the world from cancer, neurological diseases, cardiovascular and infectious diseases.
- This year the Zuckerberg team congratulated him on his birthday with a cake in the shape of meat steaks and chicken legs, the photo of which, of course, immediately appeared in the social network.
- Zuckerberg entered the Psychology Department at Harvard in 2002. At the same time he was taking IT-technologies course. In his second year he dropped out of the University so that nothing would distract him from working on Facebook. He resumed studying and received diploma only in spring of 2017. "It will be nice to finally add the degree to my resume," the millionaire notes. A photo with a diploma is also on his Instagram page.
- Mark Zuckerberg's personal page on Facebook can not be blocked (try it yourself!).
Nataliia Yesina, Latifundist.com
