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Facebook Renames to Meta
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#742Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It makes me believe Zuckerberg is completely surrounded by yes-men I feel like the opposite. Zuck is the only one to believe in the metaverse and as a result people who worked on the communication did it badly without a lot of conviction. He is in a pretty comfortable position, one of the richest people on earth doing 20% of growth every year. And still he wants to make a big risky bet like this one. I'm not really…
What things would those be? As far as I know his successes are a) 1 idea he had as a 19-year-old plus b) some other things that he bought with the money from that.
a) 1 idea that he stole
b) having absolutely 0 moral compass
Re: Facebook Renames to Meta
#743Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. I'm confident I don't want them to own it - or for it to be owned by a single party of any kind, for that matter. > Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up (even if contradictory to short-term gains in ad revenue) so it has a chance to grow? I mean, that would be nice f…
As to point B, they don’t even need to send one to all users - just the ones they think will be cash cows for advertisers. Everyone with a income and behavior pattern that makes them a super valuable ad demographic (say, 5% or even 1% of users) gets one for free while the rest of us pay our way on.
My outsider understanding of advertising is that the most valuable marks are the richest. So the PR might kill that.
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#744The thing I don't understand about the Metaverse is, if it was going to be any good, we would have it now with mouse, keyboard, and a nice big 4k monitor. _What you do_ in the metaverse doesn't really have anything to do with goggles you strap on your face. The goggles are just supposed to improve the immersion.
If Facebook wants to make this work they need to get into the business of making multiplayer games for everyday people. They need a huge catalog of virtual experiences with as much variety and content as Netflix's catalog.
I have no doubt that for $15 a month a huge amount of people would switch over from watching TV in the evening to hanging out in virtual worlds doing interesting stuff.
Then once everybody is playing these games on their playstation, xbox, or pc, they can upsell them on a VR rig.
Re: Facebook Renames to Meta
#745Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. I'm confident I don't want them to own it - or for it to be owned by a single party of any kind, for that matter. > Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up (even if contradictory to short-term gains in ad revenue) so it has a chance to grow? I mean, that would be nice f…
>b) How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free? $300 * 3 billion people, so $900 Billion give or take which coincidentally is right around the market cap of the entire company.
retail price != manufacturing price, so say just 2-300 bil
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#746Good god. Has Facebook now got such a bad rep it has to change its name?
For me it will always be the fat man standing behind a lamp post.
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#747Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a concept I find really useful: Acquired Situational Narcissism. If somebody spends enough time in an environment where everything is about them, they can easily come to believe everything is about them. Another thing I think is at play is people confusing luck with genius. Zuckerberg is clearly smart, but Facebook was also a right-time, right-place thing. As FaceMash and Facebook showed, he understood his au…
I'm trying to word this kindly, but I think you should instead look at the concept of "Parasocial Relationships" if you think it's appropriate to diagnose Mark Zuckerberg with Acquired Situational Narcissism. You do not know him, you have not met him and it does not make sense to try to diagnose a public figure based on what you've been presented by either his own press releases or media coverage of him. You and the…
Dude, we're all just shootin' the shit on a random tech forum site. Saying "Damn, Zuckerberg must be a total narcissist to have come up with this shit" is not exactly like I'm writing "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" in his medical chart or something.
It's more an expression that "I think this idea is so bat shitty that I don't want to know jack about how someone came up with it, just seems like a narcissistic idea to me."
Re: Facebook Renames to Meta
#748The thing I don't understand about the Metaverse is, if it was going to be any good, we would have it now with mouse, keyboard, and a nice big 4k monitor. _What you do_ in the metaverse doesn't really have anything to do with goggles you strap on your face. The goggles are just supposed to improve the immersion. If Facebook wants to make this work they need to get into the business of making multiplayer games for eve…
Maybe they can just buy Roblox.
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#749So Zucks email will be data@meta.com?
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#750https://meta.com is live as well. ...I can't tell if it's intentional that the page loads initially with the "facebook" brand in the uppper left and then quickly overwrites it with meta.
It disabled my fucking back button. What a perfect encapsulation of what they are about.
You sure this isn't from FireFox Facebook container?