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Imagine being able to say random stuff like this and getting rich off it as the stock market reacts. Must be nice.
And reading through the companies on several of the main fidelity index funds, there’s too many fissile fuel and tobacco companies for my taste.
Won’t be a part of this metaverse and I’m very happy about that.
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…
> I realised I did not want to be the reason people were using Facebook I gave up my Facebook account about a decade ago. Not for this reasons (although I very much agree with it), but because I realized that I wasn't using it. Friends and family would try to communicate with me over it, and they wouldn't get a response because I wasn't looking. A lot of them thought I was ignoring them, so I figured it was better to…
This is how I feel about email. I’m not sure it’s possible to function in modern society without an email address though.
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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.
It's unlikely that the government would permit such a sale.
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
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 ab…
Sure, it's worthy of being pursued, but Facebook doing it means that the end result is likely to be dystopian, not something that leads to a better future.
To me the "metaverse" is always there at least since the introduction of affordable personal computer in the late 70s. In the 80s you already got a "metaverse" with the computer at center surrounded by BBS/FTP/etc.
Opensimulator (the open source version of second life server) already exists, it is decentralized, self-hosted, and a few thousands of people re already living in it : https://opensimworld.com/
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I think that's their goal, they issued a copy of the book to each Oculus employee. Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/oculus-gives-all-its-employe...
Wasn't that book supposed to be a bit of a dystopian/cautionary tale against VR? I thought the resolution of the character arc was that the guy decides to take the headset off and engage in the real world more.