I remember using Facebook as a good way to organise meetups between friends in the realverse.
I switched to communicating close friends on Whatsapp when I noticed that photos and experiences seemed to be shared to prove more that you were having a good time, than actually having a good time. (I felt myself also doing this at times, and didn't like it).
If anything, I think we need far less of our convivial social lives being mediated through corporations, not more.
I use the word "convivial" after Ivan Illich, [1] who would view Facebook as part of a distopia.
> Zuckerberg said in the Q3 2021 earnings call Monday: "If you're in the metaverse every day, then you'll need digital clothes, digital tools, and different experiences. Our goal is to help the metaverse reach a billion people and hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce this decade."
This to me sounds like someone who has become detached from reality.
If only we spent more time having fun as opposed to pretending to.
My biggest gripe recently is the fact that Zuck and Co take bites out of my food and drink long before I can. Heck, when I am on vacation, they enjoy the view before I can. What gives? If I could only count the number of times where a hungry me waiting on my food was told to wait because "we need pictures of this awesome food".
When did folks start living for the likes as opposed to just liking their living?
No hurt intended here, but Zuck & co can shove their metaverse somewhere the sun don't shine for all I care.
This is the kind of long-term investment needed to push metaverse forward. I think it basically requires a founder-CEO to accomplish, as public markets apply way too much short term focus to any other executive.
Seems like FB or TWTR or NTFLX or TSLA are the only big players able to accomplish risks like this at this point...
FB is spending 50 billion on stock buybacks. Thats the biggest sign they have no clue what to do with the cash they have. From such people's imagination the metaverse is produced.
My theory is the whole metaverse charade is just a nice story for investors in hopes to figure things out later when this inevitably doesn’t pan out. Kind of like g+
I switched to communicating close friends on Whatsapp when I noticed that photos and experiences seemed to be shared to prove more that you were having a good time, than actually having a good time. (I felt myself also doing this at times, and didn't like it).
If anything, I think we need far less of our convivial social lives being mediated through corporations, not more.
I use the word "convivial" after Ivan Illich, [1] who would view Facebook as part of a distopia.
> Zuckerberg said in the Q3 2021 earnings call Monday: "If you're in the metaverse every day, then you'll need digital clothes, digital tools, and different experiences. Our goal is to help the metaverse reach a billion people and hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce this decade."
This to me sounds like someone who has become detached from reality.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich