A bunch of people fell asleep at Mark Zuckerberg's keynote speech at MWC

James Cook

Mar 2, 2015, 23:53 IST

People asleep at Mark Zuckerberg's keynote

Mark Zuckerberg gave a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday, but it was so boring that many people either fell asleep in their seats or walked out midway through.

Zuckerberg was in Barcelona to talk about Internet.org, Facebook's effort to co-ordinate mobile carriers to bring the internet to the developing world. That's actually interesting, and people mostly paid attention when Zuckerberg was talking about that.

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But the problems came when three carrier partners came on stage to talk about how they're working with Facebook. They spoke about technical things, like how working with Facebook is affecting their bottom lines. Most people in the audience weren't interested.

Now the operators are on stage with Zuckerberg and are being all lovey-dovey #yawn pic.twitter.com/HCUL4KSoMD
- Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) March 2, 2015

That's when people started to leave. Groups of people headed for the exists when they realized that Zuckerberg was just sitting quietly on stage smiling.

People may have queued two hours to see Zuckerberg, but they ain't sticking around. Audience members leaving because of this love-in.
- Katherine Rushton (@kerushton) March 2, 2015

A couple of people in the front row even apparently heckled the people on stage.

Someone is heckling the http://t.co/6NXcicLxCd carrier partners because they want to hear zuckerberg talk
- Aaron (@AaronIsSocial) March 2, 2015

The operators and Zuckerberg are talking a lot on stage, but don't seem to be saying anything… #MWC15
- Oliver Smith (@OliverSmithEU) March 2, 2015

Kind of a tame boring keynote from Zuckerberg. Mainly all about http://t.co/sZz5nWz3Wy
- Mark Dalton (@TheMarkDalton) March 2, 2015

And some people fell asleep in their seats. It was that boring.

Here is another pic of people sleeping and empty seats at this Zuckerberg "keynote" #MWC15 http://t.co/y1YQipJlaE pic.twitter.com/1FLuO6XTlH
- Lisa Fleisher (@lisafleisher) March 2, 2015