--- title: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Thank You Video for Wife Priscilla Chan description: Let's all raise a glass to Mark and Priscilla canonical: https://time.com/3585576/mark-zuckerberg-wife-facebook-thanks-video/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-14T16:29:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:18.790Z og:title: Mark Zuckerberg Made One of Those Cheesy Facebook "Thanks" Videos for His Wife, But It's Kind of Cute og:description: Let's all raise a glass to Mark and Priscilla og:url: https://time.com/3585576/mark-zuckerberg-wife-facebook-thanks-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt330d23255eb71b26/6986955ad0b6f2c884304a2e/rtx11kc0-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg walks with wife Priscilla Chan at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mark Zuckerberg Made One of Those Cheesy Facebook "Thanks" Videos for His Wife, But It's Kind of Cute twitter:description: Let's all raise a glass to Mark and Priscilla twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt330d23255eb71b26/6986955ad0b6f2c884304a2e/rtx11kc0-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mark Zuckerberg Made One of Those Cheesy Facebook 'Thanks' Videos for His Wife, But It's Kind of Cute > Sponsored content. 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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks with his wife Priscilla Chan at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley, Idaho Resort, July 11, 2013.Rick Wilking—Reuters by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 14, 2014 4:29 PM UTC You may have noticed a new trend on Facebook that allows you to thank your friends for being your friend with a [personalized video documenting said friendship](https://www.facebook.com/thanks). It’s also entirely possible you _haven’t_ noticed this yet. Based on some initial tests we ran, it yields some cheesy and/or weird results. Also, as my discerning colleague Victor Luckerson points out, “I just find the chasm between the emotional sentiment of the videos and the effort put in by person saying ‘thanks’ really, really funny.” (You really don’t have to do anything at all other than type in your friend’s name and hit play.) ### A Zuckerberg Family Album  Born in 1984, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, the son of a dentist and a psychiatrist who left her profession to work in her husband's office. Facebook  Zuckerberg's father describes his son, seen here at five years old, as "strong-willed and relentless." Facebook  Facebook was founded while Zuckerberg was a student at Harvard, where this photograph was taken. Facebook  Zuckerberg, right, sits with Facebook's other founders. The tale of the company's earliest days inspired the film The Social Network, which draws a rich, dramatic portrait of a furious, socially handicapped genius, a character who bears little resemblance to the actual Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook  In this 2006 photo, the Facebook founder poses with his older sister Randi, the company's head of consumer marketing and social-good initiatives. Facebook  Zuckerberg and his family visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando for Thanksgiving 2010. Facebook But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems determined to make this feature a _thing_, so he promoted it by sharing the video documenting his relationship with his wife. He _did_ put in a little extra effort by adding a personalized note and elaborating on why he’s thankful for her. Check it out: _Read next:_ [_7 Things You Didn’t Know About Facebook From Mark Zuckerberg’s Q&A_](http://time.com/3568439/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3585576/mark-zuckerberg-wife-facebook-thanks-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3585576/mark-zuckerberg-wife-facebook-thanks-video/"},"headline":"Mark Zuckerberg Made One of Those Cheesy Facebook 'Thanks' Videos for His Wife, But It's Kind of Cute","datePublished":"2014-11-14T16:29:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:18.790Z","description":"Let's all raise a glass to Mark and Priscilla","url":"https://time.com/3585576/mark-zuckerberg-wife-facebook-thanks-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Technology","facebook","Mark Zuckerberg"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt330d23255eb71b26/6986955ad0b6f2c884304a2e/rtx11kc0-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt330d23255eb71b26/6986955ad0b6f2c884304a2e/rtx11kc0-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Facebook CEO Zuckerberg walks with wife Priscilla Chan at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley","caption":"Facebook CEO Zuckerberg walks with wife Priscilla Chan at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley","creditText":"Rick Wilking—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3585576/mark-zuckerberg-wife-facebook-thanks-video/","name":"Mark Zuckerberg Made One of Those Cheesy Facebook 'Thanks' Videos for His Wife, But It's Kind of Cute"}}]}] ```