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Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates”
- yumraj 5y agoSupreme Leader is trying to make sure that only true believers remain at FB/Meta.
- aurizon 5y agoI prefer Zuckers...
- lamp_book 5y agoMotherzucker for a little extra spice?
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- mhoad 5y agoHow embarrassing. I couldn’t even begin someone asking me to refer to them as a metamate. I don’t think I am capable of taking that scenario seriously.
- Spivak 5y agoEmployee names are always cringy at first. You have to get over the irony hump and then Googler, Xoogler, Softies, Twits, Yahoos, and Amazonian become normal after a bit. You know CEX the train company — they’re CEX workers.
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- earleybird 5y agoMan, I'd work there just for the business card. Some things you really can't buy.
- fargle 5y agosigh... I thought things like "customer engagement expert", "associate", or "experience consultant", etc. were bad enough.
- kagaw 5y agoLol. I worked at CEX.
- School-Cotton 5y ago> Googler, Xoogler, Softies, Twits, Yahoos, and Amazonian become normal after a bit I’ve worked in the tech industry for 8.5 years now — including two as an “Amazonian” — and those are just as cringey to me as they ever have been.
- drexlspivey 5y agoRunner up was Metabros
- dymk 5y agoThat legitimately surprises me. When I worked there a few years ago, the big thing was removing gendered language (such as “ninja” and “pirate” and “Jedi”).
- ozten 5y agoThere is a fair amount of sarcasm across these comments, due to the ridiculous nature of this topic.
- shawabawa3 5y agoAren't ninja, pirate and jedi all gender neutral?
- dymk 5y agoOne would imagine so, wouldn't they!
- _dain_ 5y agothis is how authoritarian regimes and cults work; they make you do and say ridiculous things as a shibboleth. this serves multiple purposes: - alienates you from outsiders - costly signal of in-group membership - breaks down your sense of self-worth - creates a false group consensus evergreen dalrymple quote: >the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. this isn't just limited to communism, it's a pathological feature of many groups. your embarrassment is a feature not a bug.
- riidom 5y agoI'd prefer "Metameat"
- denysvitali 5y agoSmoked meats
- Shared404 5y agoAs funny as that video is, it really made me feel bad for Zuck. He really has no idea what acting natural is, his whole life really is just tied up in "They just give it to me, the dumb f----". Regardless of how much power/money he has, that feels sad.
- tharne 5y ago> He really has no idea what acting natural is, his whole life really is just tied up in "They just give it to me, the dumb f----". Regardless of how much power/money he has, that feels sad. I've never really thought about about it in quite that way before, but there is a weird way in which Zuckerberg comes off as genuinely tragic character. Which is really odd, him being a wildly successful billionaire and all.
- KptMarchewa 5y agoYep. It's really sad that he ended in a position where he'd been able to inflict the most damage he possibly could. In a better world he'd be workaholic middle manager annoying 20 or so reports instead of billions.
- r00tanon 5y agoOn the spectrum I think. He really has minimal EQ.
- waste_monk 5y agoMetastasized
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- core-utility 5y agoThis is sure to be a laughing stock and provide endless jokes among team members, who will continue referring to themselves as team members/mates.
- colesantiago 5y agoFacebook/Meta employees, if this still isn't your cue to resign, I don't know what is.
- sebastien_b 5y agoThe best clue so far is that “Meta” is likely short for “Metastasize”.
- RobRivera 5y agolol tumor joke
- granshaw 5y agoSmall price to pay for 400-500k TC
- bfung 5y ago^^^ this. For all the other comments, as an employee, would you really care? It might sound dumb, but it’s also fun, self-deprecation humor if one worked there.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoNo, the point is Zuck said it straight-faced.
- bfung 5y agolol, how else would zuck do it? (given his past, straight-faced public speaking events that don’t really change in delivery) ;)
- colesantiago 5y agoThis is expected and a total outlier. You would obviously have to sell your soul for years to get that compensation. This is Meta's way of keeping you in to continue destroying lives.
- mindcrime 5y agoI really hope that was actually a joke and he just dead-panned the delivery and people took it seriously. If not... Wow. Just wow.
- tharne 5y agoThat would be the most epic deadpan of all time.
- spzb 5y agoSounds like a brand of condoms
- yostrovs 5y agoReminds me of Siemens Healthineers
- Buttons840 5y ago> last value, and I am not making this up: "Meta, metamates, me" I can't get the "Is this good for the company?" scene out of my head[↓]. Maybe Zuckerberg is trying to set up the perfect environment for Office Space 2? https://youtu.be/dA5rB63Mzc8 https://youtu.be/dA5rB63Mzc8
- tdeck 5y agoThere's an evangelical Christian saying: "Jesus first, Others second, Yourself third" (it spells joy). Hard not to see this as a blatant ripoff.
- edmundsauto 5y agoIt’s actually a riff on a Navy saying, according to folks at Meta. And what is the difference between a rip-off and an homage? I think your underlying feelings leaked through what would have been an otherwise reasonable comment.
- cipheredStones 5y agoIt is in fact ripping off the sailor saying "ship, shipmates, self": https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/1493661545426870277?cxt=HHwWioCj3eDQxropAAAA https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/149366154542687027...
- valar_m 5y agoIs there no one there at all who would tell him this was a terrible idea? That it's an absolute parody of working in a corporate hell? If I had any kind of stake in FB, that would be the most worrisome part of this.
- gedy 5y agoThere was probably quite a project and initiative to come up with this. Likely some (non-tech) team's big goal for the year..
- ergocoder 5y agoSomebody is rewarded for this cross-org high-visibility work.
- valar_m 5y agoSure, I don't think he actually came up with it himself. I'm saying it didn't happen without Zuck's sign off. If no one told him it was awful, that's worrisome. If they told him and he ignored it, that's even worse.
- Ataraxiaist 5y agoI suspect not. A guy who gives out business cards at the start saying "I'm CEO Bitch" and then takes over the world is probably surrounded by complete "yes people" at this point. Everything about the Metaverse pivot smells to me like a team that thinks their best interest is to just agree with the Emperor.
- dev_throw 5y agoSounds like a portmanteau of meta and inmates.
- speed_spread 5y agoI can see it now, Meta branching out into the privatized correctional facilities sector.
- musicale 5y agoto me it sounded like meta + primates: "At Facebook, we have finally created the perfect high-tech workforce: genetically engineered apes that we call 'Metamates'. Tireless. Genius intellect. Loyal to the death. And...completely non-unionized!"
- keithalewis 5y agoMetabates is catchier.
- anonygler 5y agoYou can't stop me from calling them Fookers.
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoEh, this is just very standard corporate nonsense.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoPlease read Dan Lyons’ book Disrupted about what life is like working for a cult-y startup and seeing the insanity while having to wait for your options to vest. The chapter on the bozos is worth the cost of the book alone.
- JimmyAustin 5y agoChaos Monkeys (and the section extracted by Vanity Fair here: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-led-facebooks-war-to-crush-google-plus https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-...) is probably a more relevant comparison. "Facebook is full of true believers who really, really, really are not doing it for the money, and really, really will not stop until every man, woman, and child on earth is staring into a blue-bannered window with a Facebook logo. Which, if you think about it, is much scarier than simple greed. The greedy man can always be bought at some price, and his behavior is predictable. But the true zealot? He can’t be had at any price, and there’s no telling what his mad visions will have him and his followers do."
- kbelder 5y agoThat seems like a reinterpretation of the classic C. S. Lewis quote: "Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”"
- buttonpusher 5y agoAnd if you would prefer parody, try Dave Eggers' "The Circle" and "The Every". The latter is particularly relevant, and had me laughing out loud.
- Minor49er 5y agoIt's a shame that his follow up, Lab Rats, was written like he was apologizing for having made Disrupted
- pyuser583 5y agoI’d protest by pronouncing it “meh-TAH-mah-tees”, like a Greek patronymic.
- ryan-allen 5y agoIt'd fit with the ship theme.
- pyuser583 5y agoI read somewhere that in college, Mark Zuckerberg was a big admirer of Homer, whom he read in the Ancient Greek.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoDidn't at one point Marissa Meyer read to the whole company a children's book, out loud? That was the best moment to quit imaginable, right in that meeting, just by interrupting "I quit!". Might as well hear a pilot tell you the itinerary for the flight you're on was changed to the side of the tallest mountain in the range the plane had fuel for--and there was no need for the parachutes tucked behind the bathroom in the very back. You could call it "the Kool-Aid moment." It's a beautiful gift.
- pengaru 5y agoI wonder how much compensation Carmack required to join this company.
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- ilrwbwrkhv 5y agoI think he never truly joined. More like do whatever he wants for a lot of money.
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- iab 5y agoIn official communication only I have to believe
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoBut you just know some employees will lap it up.
- YaBomm 5y ago
- RandyRanderson 5y agoDoes anyone else think Mark might have had a stroke? I'm actually concerned.
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- JerryRorsch 5y agoThis is... not a good idea.
- Kye 5y agoAnagram for team meats. edit: Welcome to the Meatverse
- monkeybutton 5y agoHuman resources, or Meat Teams?
- dredmorbius 5y agoThey're made of meat!
- monkeybutton 5y ago"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat." Such a good story. For anyone interested: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
- itronitron 5y agoand they're smoking these meats
- Kye 5y agoCharcuterie coterie
- Delk 5y agoOr "tame teams".
- throw_away 5y agoI wonder if there is a compendium of what different companies call their own workers internally. Do all companies do this? Also kinda interesting how it doesn't seem Googlers ever became Alphabeters or whatever
- pxx 5y agoThey're "characters." Because they're members of the alphabet.
- glennvtx 5y agoIt is almost as if they want to hasten their inevitable irrelevance in the eyes of anyone under 40.
- Tagbert 5y agoOr also those over 40
- tarr11 5y agoalso those that are 40
- tanseydavid 5y agoAny wagers on how many additional BB in market cap gets lost tomorrow over this?
- not2b 5y agoYep. I don't think people over 40 are more enthusiastic about Zuck's metaverse than the under-40s, probably less if anything.
- klyrs 5y agoProbably more PC than Metastases? > Zuck says employees are not supposed to “nice ourselves to death” Was that ever a thing at Facebook?
- Barrin92 5y agoIt sounds like something straight out of HBO's Silicon Valley. It's a big problem with their 'Metaverse' idea in general. I saw some footage of the Horizon Worlds VR platform and it looks incredibly corporate and sterile. If you look at how creative people are in VRchat or Minecraft or other user-centric ecosystems I wonder how Facebook is supposed to be attractive to users.
- zaps 5y agoEw.
- RotaryTelephone 5y agoMetameats.
- g42gregory 5y agoWere they known as "Facemates" before?
- jondwillis 5y agoI kind of think Bookmates would have been cute.
- orthecreedence 5y agoI think it was "ushers of a totalitarian corporate surveillance state."
- dredmorbius 5y agohttps://nitter.kavin.rocks/alexeheath/status/1493658517571526656 https://nitter.kavin.rocks/alexeheath/status/149365851757152...
- bloqs 5y agoThe more I have seen of Zucks interactions over the years, the more I am convinced he is seriously mentally unwell. He has a fantastic brain, but fantastic things can go fantastically wrong. Particulary when surrounded by sycophants.
- thomassmith65 5y agoI am convinced he is seriously mentally unwell Facebook cancer has meta-stasized to his brain?
- ryan-allen 5y agoI wonder if he wears his ship captains hat to bed.
- zamalek 5y agoAs a neurodiverse person, that neurodiverse person creeps the hell out of me. I don't have much respect for his mental acuity either: his initial projects were the kind of thing "unpopular 13 year old me" would have come up with to get popular. He got lucky and failed his way to success.
- askafriend 5y agoThis reads like cope. You can't seriously believe this.
- zamalek 5y ago> You can't seriously believe this. That, in general, assholes rise to the top? There have been studies upon studies upon studies upon even more studies of how socio-/psychopaths have what it takes. That's not to say that Zuck is a sociopath or psychopath, but I'm pretty sure there's something going on, for which we don't have a word/diagnosis, that is a sibling of the former two. Scraping the college yearbook website to populate a website for voting on the attractiveness of female students (which is what Facebook started as) isn't all that impressive. A marginally gifted 12 year old could not only code that up in a week, but would also have the requisite lack of emotional maturity required to plaster women on a website for voting. He identified the very worst, and most vulnerable, of what we are: how we count likes, dislikes, and friends (when "friends" become nothing more than a token economy). Instead of desperately trying to connect with humanity (like the rest of us neurodiverse individuals), he chose to disconnect humanity as a whole. > You can't seriously believe this. And the inability to seriously consider what your fellow human is warning you about is just the tip of that iceberg.
- ddingus 5y agoI am sorry. This too will pass.
- bag_boy 5y agoI saw a Meta employee post a “my company rocks” post on LinkedIn this week. Almost all of the replies were from Meta employees, and almost all of them were hyper enthusiastic. It was almost like cult members reaffirming each other that they’re still in a high functioning group. Now of course LinkedIn is gonna LinkedIn, but this post was cranked up to an 11.
- KyeRussell 5y agoThis is genuinely how California/SV tech culture feels to people looking in, me included.
- tdeck 5y agoI was really apprehensive about this kind of "cultiness" when I moved out to SF in 2014 for my first engineering job. Luckily it really dropped off after company onboarding and I hardly ever heard this kind of talk from my normal colleagues.
- pjmlp 5y agoI see it all the time when someone from such companies is doing a talk. - "it is great to be here" - "I am inspired to let you know about.." - "It is delightfull experience..." - "It is such an amazing...." - "What a great opportunity...." " "It is my priviledge...."
- tdeck 5y agoYep, but when they're doing a talk they're playing a role. It's like when you're interviewing, you probably turn on the BS a bit. Most people don't do talks of any kind for their company so that group is already not representative of what it's like to work in company X on a day-to-day basis. That said, some things are true. E.g. Googlers are pretty self-congratulatory although there are plenty of internal cynics as well.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago
- stevenalowe 5y agometamorphs?
- copperwater69 5y agoThey called us "sandwich technicians" when I worked at subway as a teen
- uejfiweun 5y agoIs Meta doing anything cool with hardware? I can't see their vision succeeding unless there are substantial hardware innovations. Specifically, they need to solve the walking problem, they need to get some sort of haptic feedback down, and they need to make the headset as small and simple as a pair of sunglasses. Without these, the Meta-verse will never reach the mainstream.
- mvkel 5y agoHardware -and- software. It's a massive, massive challenge. One with questionable demand. Meta doesn't really have a good track record here, either. But ten years is a long time...
- dTal 5y ago"Anything cool"? They've made a standalone, wireless, battery powered VR headset with built-in inside-out tracking, and are selling it for about the price of a Nintendo Wii. It's an astonishing technical feat. Facebook have done more to bring VR to the masses than anyone else so far.
- uejfiweun 5y agoIt is definitely neat, don't get me wrong, but there's really not that much of a difference between these new headsets and the Gen 1 HTC Vive. There's a lot more distance to cover before Meta reaches the "ready player one" vision.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoReady Player One didn't have ready player one tech. The movie was wildly inconsistent with how it worked, because there are numerous fundamental design problems with getting really good vr. Like hard technical interface problems that just didn't make sense.
- uejfiweun 5y agoYeah, it was honestly a terrible book and movie (for someone who didn't grow up in the 1980s). The VR tech was the only part that I thought was cool, but as you said, there are many parts that are inconsistent. Like every scene where he is flying around in VR, or fighting. But I do think the walking problem needs to be solved for better VR, and an omni-treadmill could have some potential as a solution.
- Woodi 5y agoGot me thinking: hmm, making new Facebook just gone easy :) But still some mega scale infrastructure building is needed. So plan could be: 1. gather some funds (for straight few years of burning them); 2. place 2 page ad somewhere visible saying: "Hey FB emplees we redoing it, come to us ! This month we need: nix admins and network specialists, next: frontend developers for state of artetcetc"; 3. release early; 4. ... But do such targeting ads" are legal ? ;)
- bmitc 5y agoFacebook’s CTO said in reference to Metamates (after saying “I love it!”): > Also the saying is a reference to a Naval phrase which Instagram has used for a while "Ship, Shipmates, Self" The fact that he thinks this in anyway justifies the ridiculousness of this is telling. It’s a primary reason why people are astonished by it, aside from how silly it sounds. First, it’s somewhat insulting to the Navy. Second, the context is not even remotely close. And lastly, the direct implication is that the company is above everyone else. This person probably makes upwards of a million a year (probably much more?). These people are truly disconnected from society and reality.
- throwaway_4ever 5y ago> This person probably makes upwards of a million a year (probably much more?) $20m+ guaranteed.
- lake_vincent 5y agoWanna know the best part? The CTO also said that they got the term from....wait for it...Douglas Hofstadter. Let that sink in for a moment. I think ol' Dougie was trolling them and never thought they might actually run with it. Edit: source for the incredulous https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/1493661545426870277 https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/149366154542687027...
- bmitc 5y agoYea, I saw that too. And I agree, in that I wager too that Hofstadter is either having some fun or was unaware of the context or intended use or all of the above.
- lozenge 5y agoDouglas Hofstadter also contributed to Metafont, which is the 80s version of the MeTaVeRsE.
- tdeck 5y agoIn that it sounded cool to tech people, but other more traditional approaches to doing the same thing ended up being much more successful?
- annadane 5y agoAbandon ship
- smcin 5y agoFirst abandon ship, then abandon your mates, finally abandon yourself. It's a crypto-roadmap!
- benjamir 5y agoOne of FAANG out of ideas? * Change the name of it * Change (brand) color(s) * Modify icon (slightly) and have it as the major news of a release * Do something seemingly stupid to get press coverage
- dormento 5y agoSerious q, will we start using MAANG from now on? Edit: MANGA? MAGNA?
- NathanielLovin 5y agoIf you switch the F to an M you should also switch the G to an A MAAAN
- mrweasel 5y agoI’ve seens it as MAAMA. Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon. Netflix is not a tech darling anymore.
- supurbly 5y agoOr GAMMA for Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon
- JonChesterfield 5y agoCould be. The others are each building their favourite vision of dystopia for profit. Netflix are selling entertainment shows. Hard to see them as the same class of dangerous but equally doesn't seem to have the same scope for revenue.
- fartcannon 5y agoThese days, it's more like a list of the companies that ruined tech and the internet. Microsoft certainly belongs on that list. Netflix made it better for a while at least.
- dTal 5y ago
- outsomnia 5y agoThe inevitability of nautical references terminating at "Titanic".
- raxxorrax 5y agoMetastases was a close secondary contender.
- zaptheimpaler 5y agoUsually the lower an employee is on the company totem pole, the more they are treated like infants. More "company values" to replace any values you might hold, more dumb names. Maybe they will make fun new uniforms for the metamates soon. That way the adults can quickly pick out when children are in the room and adjust accordingly. It's going to be funny seeing employees laugh it off and use the name ironically, and watch in horror as the irony is gradually lost in translation to newcomers.
- Trasmatta 5y agoMy company has also been pushing "company values" very hard, and I've always hated it. It feels cult like and condescending. Especially when they capitalize them. We have to show that we all believe in the value of Ownership here!
- zaptheimpaler 5y agoYes, be an Owner in every way except the one in the ways that matter - decision making and a piece of the profits. I just ignore dumb propaganda like this. You have no obligation to accept the responsibilities of ownership if they don’t come with a proportional piece of the rights & rewards. Although if you are given options worth a fair amount of % ownership, this may be a reasonable request.
- wintermutestwin 5y ago>an Owner in every way except the one in the ways that matter - decision making and a piece of the profits. Ouch - that stings me with my past history of nearly 2 decades as a megacorp product manager. Of course I took ownership because that's how I am wired - not because of some corporate culture initiative.
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- dschuetz 5y agoIt's official: Zuckerberg has lost his effing mind.
- datavirtue 5y agoI'm starting to suspect drug abuse.
- bink 5y agoBy his blood boy.
- burnt_toast 5y agoNah he's just living in some alternative reality. A virtual one perhaps
- yabatopia 5y agoI prefer to call them MetHeads.
- llimos 5y ago"Metamates" sums up Facebook (the product) pretty well. No real mates, just meta-mates.
- globalise83 5y agoMeatmates or metamates, that is the question.
- aftergibson 5y agoWe can all laugh at how stupid these moves sounds, but Facebook is an incredibly profitable company not in the habit of burning through cash on doomed projects. It really sounds like they’re buying hard into the meta-verse and the most terrifying thought to me is. What if this pays off?
- delecti 5y agoFacebook has had a good streak of successful ideas, but basically operates at the whims of Zuckerberg, and nobody has exclusively good ideas. There will probably be something like meta-verse that eventually gets popular, but I suspect that success is not going to be something achieved by throwing money at the problem.
- sydthrowaway 5y agoYou're right.. Go long on $FB
- rdtsc 5y agoThey can call each other “Hey, metamate!” to deliver backhanded insults. https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/gcrvry/are_sailors_still_being_overly_sensitive_about/ https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/gcrvry/are_sailors_st...
- thenerdhead 5y ago“I’m not your metamate, paypal!”
- marginalia_nu 5y ago"I'm not your PayPal, BonziBuddy!"
- thenerdhead 5y ago“I’m not your BonziBuddy, Friendster!”
- fattybob 5y agoFor me it brings to mind a brand of prophylactic- from Quite a while back, not sure they’re still around!!
- throwaheyy 5y agoMetamucil?
- elisbce 5y agoCompany Policy: No metamating with your metamates in your metaverse.
- datavirtue 5y agoSailors are not allowed to have intimate relationships with other shipmates...so this is a thing.
- entropicgravity 5y agoI might prefer Metamastermates.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoThat's just Metamaster bait.
- hprotagonist 5y agopronounce as four syllables for maximal amusement.
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- dilippkumar 5y agoOh no! What have you done! I can not unsee this now.
- frfl 5y agomet-ah-mate-ees?
- hprotagonist 5y agomet-ah-mah-tees; i went more greek and less pirates
- ozzmotik 5y agocame here for this, seemed the most natural pronunciation
- Nition 5y agoOr met-ah-mar-tay, which would be Maori for meta-death[0]. Which reminds me of the "Hello, death" Coke machines[1]. [0]https://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?&keywords=mate https://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?&keywords=mate [1]https://twitter.com/waikatoreo/status/1051264259089264640 https://twitter.com/waikatoreo/status/1051264259089264640
- rwbhn 5y agoI immediately went to rhymes with kubernetes
- WesolyKubeczek 5y agoLike "inmates", why not
- tantalor 5y agoIt's supposed to be a twist on "teammate"
- tjpnz 5y agoAll in good time!
- perihelions 5y agoIt will likely track a similar use arc. A versatile word of neutral connotation was attached to a new, derogatory meaning, which displaced all the others: today its only meaning is "prisoner". "Inmate" used to encompass things like "hotel guest" and "hospital patient". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inmate#Usage_notes https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inmate#Usage_notes
- codyb 5y agoHuh, inn mate? Never noticed that. Neat.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoReady Player One movie had a private prison owned by the facebook equivalent. Seems legit.
- hprotagonist 5y agowhere’s my loogie gun?
- dvt 5y agoHonest question: what is Facebook trying to accomplish? What exactly is the "Metaverse?" Their Superbowl ad was just straight-up weird & confusing. I'm honestly not sure what their product team's vision is. Does anyone actually see the majority of the planet strapping Oculuses to their face and spending even a fraction of the amount of time there that people are currently spending on FB and IG? I have an Oculus and other than Beatsaber and Alyx and a few other titles/apps, it's just not that exciting. The Nintendo Switch is at least an order of magnitude more fun.
- handol 5y agoI think it really boils down to, they need a near future myth for investors to speculate their stock price up. That myth is, ubiquitous, always-on AR is just around the corner, and they're going to be the platform it runs on.
- Enginerrrd 5y agoThis seems like the most plausible explanation to me. But Zuckerberg does also seem weird and unsocialized enough to actually believe there's potential in the metaverse.
- ericabiz 5y agoYes, exactly. This is just like Uber and self-driving cars…only instead of “this will lower our costs and finally make us profitable!” it’s “this is another platform where we can have infinite growth!” It’s a tacit acknowledgement that the days of wild growth for their existing platform are over.
- bko 5y agoA future myth? They've been printing money for over a decade now. Their first positive net income was 2009. Apart from last quarter, they're still gaining users every year, sometime double digit percentages. They were able to squeeze multiple times the revenue out of their user base than other social networks. If they execute on VR half as well as they did their core product than the hype is real
- kevinventullo 5y agoWith markets the way they are these days, I wonder how much $FB would skyrocket if Zuck announced they were acquiring Sweet Baby Ray’s.
- nr2x 5y agoNot as much as if he'd announce his retirement!
- xedrac 5y agoThis reminds me of when Steve Ballmer retired from Microsoft and their stock price soared!
- stock_toaster 5y agoInstead we get Sweet Meta Rays. (Not to be confused with Manta Rays)
- fartcannon 5y agoAt this point, it's pretty clear that someone has blackmail material on Zuck and he's being embarrassed before outted.
- vmception 5y agoBloomberg is dunking on this pretty hard https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-16/mark-zuckerberg-s-metamates-may-be-in-for-a-long-rough-voyage https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-16/mark-z... > Zuckerberg has encouraged his employees to call themselves “Metamates” instead of “colleagues” or “co-workers” or “Steve.” It’s nautical! We’re going on a swashbuckling adventure! Ahoy, Metamaties! > But nautical adventures don’t always end well. Indigenous Hawaiians killed Captain James Cook. Even successful explorers spread disease, enslavement and general human misery through the world.
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- michaelwilson 5y agoI heard this as part of "You should think of Meta, Metamates, self", as in "Ship, Shipmates, Self". My first reaction was "So, where does you family fit into all this?" This sounds like someone who read the history of WeWork, but skipped the part at the end.
- TexanFeller 5y ago“metamate” is a straight up embarrassing thing to be called. If I worked there I don’t think I could get that out of my mouth without gagging or heavy sarcasm.
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- radicaldreamer 5y agoThey're doing all this to distract from regulation for their bread and butter businesses. That and they see not owning the platform their apps run on (iOS and Android) an existential threat.
- crocodiletears 5y agoThey'vevbeen running ads demanding regulation on cable and streaming services for a hot minute, I don't think they want to hide or distract from it.
- syngrog66 5y agoThe whole Facebook to Meta thing reminds me of Blackwater renaming itself to Xe etc. Juvenile attempt at trying to shed taint and boost morale.
- n0rschy 5y agoI find it amazing how many people that don’t work for the company have an opinion about something that has nothing to do with them.
- fartcannon 5y agoI have empathy for people in all kinds of horrible situations. I have empathy for every metamatie who gave up their soul for money, who might only now be starting to see the problem.
- spicyusername 5y agoFacebook has inserted itself into most people's lives, making it have plenty "to do with them".
- n0rschy 5y agoMeta calling its employees Metamates has something to do with you? How?
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- bluefoot3 5y agoIronically, social media wouldn't be a tenth as successful if people behaved the way you wish them to do. Meta (and all social networks) rely on us giving opinions on any and everything we see.
- kagaw 5y agoNegative,I am a Metamates -Bruce Willis The 5th element
- zthrowaway 5y agoThe Metaverse already exists. It’s called video games.
- trenchgun 5y agoI thought "metamate" is some kind of polyamory stuff? Similar to: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Metamour https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Metamour
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI wonder why they didn't choose something trendier like metanauts or metassociates or metaheads
- Traster 5y agoIt's interesting that Bezos basically left Amazon to have his mid-life crisis. He handed over the reigns for all the important stuff and went off to work on other stuff whilst he partied on yachts. Facebook is so tied to Zuckerberg as a person that Zuckerberg's mid-life crisis is facebook's mid-life crisis. Facebook as a product has basically reached maturity, and it makes perfect sense that the company uses the cash they're throwing off to pursue other bets. But strategically refocusing the entire company on AR/VR is just bizarre. It damages the existing business which is still hugely valuable, it ties the new business to an existing reputation which is abysmal, and it makes the chances of success tiny - because you don't need to make something new that works, you need to make something new that justifies a trillion dollar market cap.
- sylens 5y agoThe whole point of the Metaverse in Snowcrash was that most people's lives were so incredibly bad and depressing, that people wanted to escape into the Metaverse where things may be better for you. Facebook is betting on people's lives getting worse, partly because their original product has done such a great job of making that a reality for the last decade.
- taylodl 5y agoSince Facebook views themselves as part of the in-crowd maybe we should refer to them as inmates?
- msarrel 5y agoI guess when they get new jobs they metastasize.
- env123 5y agoGoing out on a limb here, read far worst brand/product names here in HN, so this doesn't surprise me, no matter how silly it sounds