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I was a bit surprised why they used zukerburg to make the announcement in the first place. Fb is seen as a very creepy company. The amount of memes calling zuke

I was a bit surprised why they used zukerburg to make the announcement in the first place. Fb is seen as a very creepy company. The amount of memes calling zukerburg a creep and the amount of jokes I have seen in the past few hours is astounding. If fb did meta as a separate company/project and not directly linked to zukerburg and maybe had fb as a partner company they would have made this whole thing feel less silly and less creepy.

pupppet 5y ago
Mark wants to make it clear this is his universe. He read Ready Player One and decided playing a virtual god would be fun.
samizdis 5y ago
I am not really sure whether there is any way, given Facebook's corporate structure and investor/shareholder voice/power, that Zuckerburg could be overruled. The final decision, I think, is entirely his - albeit that he was probably advised by the top people around him. Given that, then this seems to me that his passion for this is strong enough to overcome any reservations he or anyone around him might have. He's not dumb, and he surely knows what's what re current PR and image problems etc, so this looks (to me) like an expression of belief in what his vision is for the future.
MrPatan 5y ago
> the amount of jokes I have seen Mark hasn't seen them.
TigeriusKirk 5y ago
Steve Jobs laid a trap for tech ceo egos with his presentations. He was very good at it, and other tech ceos want to imagine they're good at it too. They aren't, not even his handpicked successor. They'd all be better served by turning it over to professionals, but they have to do it themselves. The thing that puzzled me about the Meta presentation was that Zuckerburg could hire the best hair and makeup people in the world to at least help him look less creepy, but he doesn't. There's really no excuse for that. The look hurts his goals, but he sticks with it.

pupppet 5y ago

Mark wants to make it clear this is his universe. He read Ready Player One and decided playing a virtual god would be fun.

samizdis 5y ago

I am not really sure whether there is any way, given Facebook's corporate structure and investor/shareholder voice/power, that Zuckerburg could be overruled. The final decision, I think, is entirely his - albeit that he was probably advised by the top people around him. Given that, then this seems to me that his passion for this is strong enough to overcome any reservations he or anyone around him might have. He's not dumb, and he surely knows what's what re current PR and image problems etc, so this looks (to me) like an expression of belief in what his vision is for the future.

MrPatan 5y ago

> the amount of jokes I have seen Mark hasn't seen them.

TigeriusKirk 5y ago

Steve Jobs laid a trap for tech ceo egos with his presentations. He was very good at it, and other tech ceos want to imagine they're good at it too. They aren't, not even his handpicked successor. They'd all be better served by turning it over to professionals, but they have to do it themselves. The thing that puzzled me about the Meta presentation was that Zuckerburg could hire the best hair and makeup people in the world to at least help him look less creepy, but he doesn't. There's really no excuse for that. The look hurts his goals, but he sticks with it.