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Facebook just showed us its 10-year road map in one graphic

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just showed off the company's 10-year road map in one graphic at the company's F8 developers conference on Tuesday.

Here's how Zuck sees Facebook's next 10 years:

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"That’s the road map for the next 10 years," Zuckerberg said. "We are building the technology to give anyone the power to share anything they want with anyone else."

As the chart shows, the focus for products and making money during the next three years involves Facebook's ecosystems, while video, search, groups, and the family of apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram come into play in the next five years.

The 10-year game involves more ambitious technology efforts, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality, and new connectivity offerings, such as drone-delivered internet service.

F8 is taking place at Fort Mason in San Francisco, and the company is expected to announce a bunch of new products and features.

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Jillian was most recently an enterprise technology editor based in San Francisco.  She started at Insider as an intern on the technology desk in 2013 and rose to a senior reporter position, covering Alphabet, Facebook, and ecommerce. After three years at the site, she left to spend time freelance writing abroad, before taking reporting positions at CNBC and then at Forbes, where she covered Alphabet, Silicon Valley culture, and artificial intelligence. She returned to Insider in March 2020 and worked on the enterprise technology desk until August 2021.  Jillian graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in magazine journalism and information management and technology.