People Are Freaking Out About This Mark Zuckerberg Photo

By Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor
Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor

Benjamin Snyder is Fortune's managing editor, leading operations for the newsroom.

Prior to rejoining Fortune, he was a managing editor at Business Insider and has worked as an editor for Bloomberg, LinkedIn and CNBC, covering leadership stories, sports business, careers and business news. He started his career as a breaking news reporter at Fortune in 2014.

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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., speaks during the Facebook F8 Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Zuckerberg plans to unveil tools that let application makers reach the social network's audience while helping the company boost revenue. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo on his Facebook (FB) profile that’s caused quite a stir online.

In the photo (which you can view below), Zuckerberg can be seen walking through an audience of people hooked up to virtual reality headsets at the Mobile World Congress, a tech conference, in Spain. Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance to talk about Samsung’s Gear VR and hinted at Facebook working more closely with Samsung in the future.

Zuckerberg is slated to give his own keynote address on Monday, which you can read more about on Fortune.

The photo, which was posted on Sunday, has since garnered over 55,000 likes and over 15,000 shares.

https://twitter.com/ow/status/701528914691227648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

 

“Damn, It’s kind of creepy,” wrote the top Facebook comment on the photo. “Mark—doesn’t it feel strange to be the only one walking with your real eyes, while everyone else are zombies in the matrix?” wrote another.

Here’s some of the commotion it’s caused on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ow/status/701528914691227648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/kgasso/status/701536811416363008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/ndebock/status/701505382506749953/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The photo comes as Facebook recently announced that it’s teaming up with Nokia, Intel, and other companies on an open-source hardware and software platform, as Fortune reported.