Facebook Is Hosting Its First 'Community Summit' This Summer, Aiming to Bring People Together IRL

The event for Groups page admins will take place in Chicago

Facebook wants to help turn online “friends” into offline friends with its inaugural Communities Summit this summer.

“Community” is one of those warm, fuzzy, ambitious and yet ambiguous words used by the tech world to describe online relationships. However, the event—which will be held in Chicago on June 22 and 23—marks the next tangible step in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitious plans to help better connect users in the U.S. with each other in real life. (Earlier this year, Zuckerberg wrote a 6,000-word

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