Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ • Hacker News Board

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by cameronh90 » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

jhbadger wrote: post #35

CraftingLinks wrote: post #32

Within a decade FB will be the next dying messenger and the world will have moved on.

Facebook the company or Facebook the platform? The thing with Facebook owning Instagram is even as Facebook itself becomes less and less relevant to younger generations, the company still owns the platform those younger generations favor. And as Instagram inevitably becomes itself irrelevant, I'm sure Facebook will just buy the next social media platform.

Instagram has already peaked and is on the down-trend.

TikTok is what the kids are using now - and they're valued at about half of what FB is valued at, so unlikely that FB will be able to buy them.

Maybe FB will buy whatever replaces TikTok.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by xxxtentachyon » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:06 PM UTC

maxwell wrote: post #39

al2o3cr wrote: post #6

Marketing droid: "We're not a social media company, we're a metaverse company" Normal person: What does that mean? Marketing droid: "The metaverse does not have a specific definition"

It's "a place where all IP can live together, where all kinds of experiences can happen." https://twitter.com/juliey4/status/1205393085145874433

Really wish they launched last year. Imagine all the Second Life proms

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by p_l » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

You know, so many comments, and nobody had mentioned Snow Crash yet?

I am disappoint, HN ;)

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by IgorPartola » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

Imagine being able to say random stuff like this and getting rich off it as the stock market reacts. Must be nice.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by matheusmoreira » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

cwkoss wrote: post #60

Looking forward to logging in once and drawing as many dicks as possible in zucks metaverse before I'm banned.

This sort of disruption will probably be considered virtual terrorism one day... Imagine the CIA torturing some poor soul over dicks in the zuckerverse.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by buttholesurfer » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

So glad I deleted my account years ago. That place is garbage.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by meiraleal » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

al2o3cr wrote: post #6

Marketing droid: "We're not a social media company, we're a metaverse company" Normal person: What does that mean? Marketing droid: "The metaverse does not have a specific definition"

Feels like he is trying to copy Elon Musk

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by JohnFen » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

p_l wrote: post #63

You know, so many comments, and nobody had mentioned Snow Crash yet? I am disappoint, HN ;)

Personally, I didn't want to soil Snow Crash by associating it in any way with Facebook.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by ve55 » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

I'm surprised how negative the comments here are, even if it is true that 'metaverse' is turning into a pretty silly buzzword. I think there's still coherent concepts defined by it (interfaces becoming much more inline with what humans find natural, integration of VR+AR capabilities, and the 'Internet' becoming more and more 'real life' in general).

Facebook is absolutely one of the best-positioned companies to be able to become a long-term market leader in these areas and has been investing heavily into R&D in all related categories. Although some of us dislike many ways the company operates, this still does seem like a very well thought-out and aggressive long-term mission that is worthy of being pursued, and I'm pretty excited to continue to see innovation in the more difficult areas like AI and VR here.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by verytrivial » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

LOL. No.

A week or so ago I unfriended every one of my 'friends' on Facebook, many there since 2007. I'm now just squatting my own identity for the handful of community and sports clubs that use Facebook as a bulletin board. These people are 'acquaintances', I know most of them by sight, but don't see what they're having for breakfast or when their baby does something amazing. So, basically neighbours in a village.

I realised I did not want to be the reason people were using Facebook, posting their curated/fictional 'best self'. Basically, friends don't encourage friends to use Facebook[1].

Write that email if you expect someone to read it, write a blog post if you don't. But I'm over being party to mining other people's attention spans and identity for personal gratification and someone else's profit.

[1] Or any other parasocial medium in my opinion.