Facebook Wants to Open 'Welcoming' Retail Stores Where People Can Experience the 'Metaverse'

This guy works really well for a James Bond villain . He literally lost his mind.

I can't wait for an Instagram alternative to hit the final coffin in the most evil corporate in modern history
 
Seetheren said:
Honestly, I wonder when Marky sold his soul to get that green because he seems completely oblivious to why Facebook is hated, why it is a terrible product for society in general, and why it destroys the lives of so many people. I deleted my Facebook/"meta" page a a while ago and it has been the best thing I could have done.
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Yet you’ve been replaced by bots to show ever increasing user numbers…
 
return2sendai said:
Basing your conclusions about what is correct or incorrect on the number of people you know (who happen to agree with you) is a logical fallacy called the “Argument by Weight of Numbers”. If 8 billion people share your belief that the Moon is made of cheese, I am still correct to state that the Moon is not made of cheese; even if I won’t have as many friends or Likes as you by saying it.
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I mean bottom line is that the metaverse is coming, and a lot of people are here for it!

It's like the people who wouldn't upgrade to iPhone because it had no keyboard. I'm sure many did eventually.

That's the metaverse imo
 
sfoalex said:
I'll never understand why people use Facebook.
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It magnifies the worst impulses in people. Stalking, judging, flaming, yet also supporting, enabling.

I was amazed at the number of people I was able to help in a group I was in. People would come with questions on bikes and biking, and a small group of people there would help them. There was also a smaller group that would snipe at people, and provide snarky wrong and sometimes damaging answers. Confronting them would often end up in a flame war, and the outright malignancy of them was always so draining.

But, yeah, people I knew from high school would find me, and then basically ghost me. People I used to work with would do much the same. Some family would find me, and then often drop me, or start pointless arguments and I'd drop them. I was surprised how many believed the most outlandish lies. But you can't fix stupid.

Facebook is something that would be hard to be 100% positive in society, and considering why and how it started, it's no wonder it's such a bag of garbage. That they are ignorantly ethnocentric shouldn't be a big surprise either. It's cheaper, and more profitable to be in every (just about every) country, and at the same time under fund management of those offices.

Facebook is a cancer, it's a tool, it's a necessary evil for many people, it's an enabling and enticing weapon for the subconscious.

If it has a future, a positive future for humanity, it will take a complete replacement of their management. A complete refocus of what they *should* be doing, and what they *should* be allowing instead of resting on their belief that they are helpless to their members and what they post. There is a level of responsibility that I feel Facebook has ignored and is shirking, a fiduciary duty to the betterment of humankind. They have immense power. With that comes immense responsibility.

The problem is that Facebook isn't the only 'social media' company that is largely failing humanity. I see so much dreck on YouTube too. Outrageously wrong videos, and so many pushing fake BS. The one that makes me laugh is the one saying that Voyager II is 'coming back to Earth'. Laughable? It's cringe worthy, not to mention completely impossible. There are a bunch of videos promoting ridiculous health fallacies too, not to mention so many ridiculous videos supporting so much else that is 'unhelpful', and stealthily malignant.

More, much more, needs to be done. Policing, cleaning up social media is a massive job, and it's not being given a serious chance of saving their companies, and society. It's sad... They *could* be such an uplifting and supportive force for the collective good of everyone. *sigh* We SHOULD BE better than this... We NEED to demand better...
 
An iPhone upgrade being compared to the introduction of the Metaverse ranks as one of the most ridiculously false analogies ever written.
 
xxray said:
Is anyone actually interested in a metaverse? Wtf is the point of recreating the real world into a fake world? Seems so depressing and dystopian.
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Because the real world is too scary despite the vast availability of vaccines for those who want it. Do you know how to make control easier than everyone in their little pods at home suckling Zuck's teat?
 
Hieveryone said:
I mean bottom line is that the metaverse is coming, and a lot of people are here for it!

It's like the people who wouldn't upgrade to iPhone because it had no keyboard. I'm sure many did eventually.

That's the metaverse imo
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“here for it”? Don’t you mean “there for it”?
 
Ahaha! I love how Facebook/Meta has become such a laughing stock! Makes me feel sorry for my acquaintances at Facebook.

Anyway, I had a friend ask me yesterday if I was interested in working for Meta (since they’re hiring a lot of people in NYC right now). I laughed and said no. I added that I don’t expect them to survive the next bubble burst and recession, which is just about due any month now, especially with the Federal Reserve taking interest rate hikes.
 
WWPD said:
Instead of a Genius bar, you get an Enema Bar. Apple Genius is now Agent (Surname) they wear a basic black suit with a black tie and sunglasses. Customer service is cold, emotionless but efficient.
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There’s no guarantee that the customer service is efficient! Most online firms honestly have really crappy customer service. Amazon, for instance, honestly has some pretty awful customer service (it can be very hard to trigger a customer service step or get ahold of a customer service agent), but they manage to sidestep a variety of customer service complaints with a customer-placating approach (being quick to issue refunds, for instance). Google’s customer support is famously awful, even for their paid users, but most users never encounter an issue that pushes them over the edge of contacting a customer service agent.
 
IngridGW said:
I am curious, but the metaverse they are describing seems to be the way we are headed … NFT’s … people are also creating NFT items inside digital worlds .. similar to Meta but called Earth2,0 or something like that. There seems to be an interest in holing up with our phones and social media. So feels like they are going to have everyone logged into a 4-D world owning land, art and tons of items and things via NFT’s. Sounds very sci-fi, but that is where it is headed unless something happens to change the course. Movies and books have been saying it, but technology is now catching up for a new advanced version of virtual reality. Look at how we are obsessed with phones and digital games, apps, etc. The next step is to somehow plug into the “net” along with everyone else.

Also back to NFT’s again… they boggle my mind because I don’t get it, but they are now selling nikes and other high end brand items ..digital .. and people are buying it! Pair of nikes that you can own and not get dirty by wearing…

Maybe it is just more efficient for us to turn inward into ourselves more and it is a new facet of human evolution. Who knows, but there just seems to be this push to all digital that is gaining steam.


Guess that is my attempt to answer the why?
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But NFTs seem to be full of hot air to me. The token isn’t associated with a real world object, there’s not an ownership link that guarantees that ownership of the NFT imparts ownership of the physical object represented by the token. (It reminds me of a lot of some of the paper gold investment scams you see, where the issuer doesn’t allow you to redeem your paper for the gold that supposedly backs it.) Honestly, a lot of crypto investors are incredibly naive (having minimal investment experience with non-crypto assets), and you see a lot of the old equities or commodities investment scams showing up with a crypto twist. Pump and dump is so prevalent in the altcoin space these days, for instance. Ownership of an NFT strikes me as being a lot like ownership of real estate or clothing in Second Life, which is really virtually identical to buying some IAP in a freemium game, only there’s a floating exchange rate between the in-game currency and real money and IAP can be transferred between users causing the game to feature an economy simulator. Consider, on the other hand, domain names. There’s a clear way to validate ownership of domains, as well as a clear mechanism for ensuring that the owner of the domain name is the holder of the real world copyright. So there’s the ownership link, and it’s transferable and fungible in a way that Second Life digital assets aren’t.

There’s a huge asset and equities bubble going on right now, and it’s definitely spilled over into crypto. I’m not convinced that crypto is valueless, but some chunk of its value is driven by the same inflationary pressures driving the asset and equities bubbles, and I believe NFT investing is really just a bubble economy activity.

Regulatory disclaimer: This isn’t meant to be investment advice, this is just my opinion. Be sure to do your own research, blah, blah, blah.
 
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