Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday received Nigeria’s Lola Omolola, founder of a secret Facebook group called Female in Nigeria.
FIN was founded in 2015 by Omolola, a movement of women focused on building compassion and providing support for one another, with the goal of having up to 1000 members in the group.
However, the group exceeded its target as it recently hit one million members.
According to Zuckerberg’s Facebook page on Tuesday, he met with Lola and would be meeting a few hundred of other top Facebook group admins in Chicago later in the month for the first ever Facebook Communities Summit.
“Over the past few weeks, I’ve been meeting group admins across the country that are building meaningful communities on Facebook and will be at the summit,” the Facebook founder updated.
Of the FIN group, Zuckerberg said it is “a no-judgment space where more than a million women come to talk about everything from marriage and sex to health issues and work problems.
“It is helping to end the culture of silence that exists for women in some parts of the world.’’
Zuckerberg also said he looked forward to meeting more “admins” like Lola and talking about how globally popular social media platform “can help them do even more to build community.”
