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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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

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Post by viscanti »

verytrivial wrote: post #70

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…

So you don't want to be embodied in a world full of Russian and anti-vax propaganda (along with the fictional 'best self' content from 'friends')?

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

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Post by tengbretson »

munk-a wrote: post #73
tengbretson wrote: post #48

I don't think this college drop-out guy knows what he's talking about.

I loathe Facebook - but trying to say Mark Zuckerberg is an idiot at this point is pretty hilarious. A bachelor's level of academic training is essentially irrelevant by the time you're thirty - a master's by the time you're thirty five. Academic credentials are a very silly thing to get out the rulers over.

If he's so clever then why hasn't he figured out how to have neighbors that don't hate him?

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

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Post by tharne »

verytrivial wrote: post #70

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…

Right on. I quit Facebook about 2 years ago for the exact same reason and never looked back. I think you're on to something here. Network effects work both ways. If each new user on a platform compounds it's utility and desirability, then the reverse is also true. This means even a relatively small, but non-trivial, number of people shunning Facebook can drastically reduce it's desirability and power.

I saw a little tiny glimpse of this when an organization I'm in wanted to use Facebook to schedule events and communicate. There were perhaps 30 of us in the group and myself and one other person spoke up and said we weren't on Facebook, so we would either need to be emailed the events or simply not participate. The head of the org decided it was easier just to send everyone an email. So two stubborn people out of 30 changed the way an organization decided to interact with it's members.

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

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Post by Niglodonicus »

cblconfederate wrote: post #108

> probably going to resemble some kind of a hybrid between the social platforms that we see today, but an environment where you’re embodied in it 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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Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by TeeMassive »

That's one hell of a way to brand "extending the tentacles of our monopoly into your daily life".

> Mr Zuckerberg has made such comments before, hypothesizing that humans should “be teleporting, not transporting ourselves” into various environments through virtual and mixed reality environments.

"You will live in a pod and you will be happy with VR"

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

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Post by vlozko »

cameronh90 wrote: post #61
jhbadger wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In light of all the details that has come out with regards to buying out Instagram to prevent them from being a competitor, it's a massive uphill regulatory approval climb even if money is not an issue.

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

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Post by zekrioca »

djoo wrote: post #28
arodyginc wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In which countries FB is the only Internet?

In some African countries, Facebook is free via Mobile Data (also Wikipedia). Therefore, it becomes the "only" Internet. They even have cases of piracy movies being shared/available within theses sites.

This is so prevalent that there are many study groups on facebook just because of that: it is the only place they can "freely" exchange ideas, and voluntaries from other countries (without these limitations) help by copying and pasting info and documents so others can 'freely' download it.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

cwkoss wrote: post #60

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

Reminds me of this CNET interview[1] on Second Life in 2006, where pretty much exactly this happened.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2006-12-20-second-life-millionaire-...

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

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Post by viscanti »

JohnFen wrote: post #106
ve55 wrote: post #69

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…

> long-term mission that is worthy of being pursued 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.

Zuck pitches it as being like current social media but that you're embodied in it. That sounds pretty dystopian to me.
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