Mark Zuckerberg broke his arm but is not wearing a splint or a sling.
“Apparently when you’re trying to heal an elbow or a shoulder, if it’s not too badly separated, the mobility actually helps it heal, more than just having it in a sling that makes it a little stiff,” the Facebook CEO told comedian Jerry Seinfeld who made a surprise appearance during Tuesday’s Q&A with Facebook users.
Zuckerberg said he was training for a triathlon when he took a tumble after “10 seconds” on his new bike.
“Can I tell you how many times people here today talked to me about the broken arm?” Seinfeld said during the video stream broadcast on Facebook Live. “They really looked after you. ‘Don’t ask him. Don’t pretend that you know about it. But if he brings it up, the arm really is broken.’ It’s a big thing going on at the company today.”
“People don’t know what to do with a broken arm that doesn’t really look like it’s broken,” Zuckerberg said. “My wife wants me to put a temporary tattoo on it that says ‘Broken.'”
Some 100,000 viewers showed up to watch Zuckerberg’s first-ever Q&A session over Facebook Live.
Before Seinfeld joined the Q&A, Zuckerberg again aired his theory that in coming decades, after virtual reality and augmented reality have exhausted their utility, a form of technology-enabled telepathy will help people capture and then share their thoughts and feelings with friends. He has said in the past he believes this kind of telepathy is “the future of communication.”
“A lot of what we’re trying to do here is give everyone in the world the power to share exactly what they’re experiencing and thinking with anyone else,” he said.
And that he says has him intrigued by futuristic and “pretty crazy” research such as the ability to transplant memories from one brain to another (“we’re not working on that,” he says.)
“You know that’s obviously pretty far-off. There are a lot of technology advances that are going to need to happen for that to be something safe to use, and something you’d actually want to do and all that,” he said. “But I do think in the future we will have the ability to just capture kind of a raw emotion or thought that we have, when you want and how you want, and of course it’s really important that people have the power to do this in the way that they want to be able to share that with other people.”
Zuckerberg also addressed other pressing matters during Tuesday’s Q&A.
On what he does when he wakes up in the morning: He checks Facebook.
On his infant daughter disrupting his sleep: Max makes pterodactyl sounds. “I didn’t know a human could make those noises.”
On whether Facebook plans to charge for the service: “You will never have to pay for Facebook. Facebook is free. It always will be.”
On whether he is secretly a lizard: “I am going to have to go with no. I am not a lizard. But keep the high quality comments coming in.”
