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Judging from media and friends who currently work there, it seems like few employees actually believe in the Metaverse vision, and that it is largely being push

Judging from media and friends who currently work there, it seems like few employees actually believe in the Metaverse vision, and that it is largely being pushed onto them by Zuck, who seems to think he has little responsibility to justify his decisions to his staff. In fact, a lot of Zuck’s rhetoric lately, from explicitly blaming lazy employees to canceling accepted internship offers, seems to be washing himself of all responsibility for Meta’s issues while demanding the kind of unquestioning loyalty that intelligent, capable folks are typically unwilling to give. A crisis shows a leader’s true colors, and Zuck has shown himself to be a visionless bully. It won’t happen, but the best thing for that company would be for him to step down as CEO in favor of someone more capable.

throwaway4aday 4y ago
I disagree. Zuck has a vision and he's made it pretty plain. He is pivoting his company away from traditional social media and attempting to transform it into a social VR company. He seems intent on making this happen even if he has to kill the facebook arm of the company in order to do so. The thing he says over and over is that he started facebook as a way to connect people and I think he sees the inherent limitations built into that system. You will never truly connect with someone through text and pictures on a webpage, even audio and video can't do it. He seems to believe, whether correct or not, that we can truly connect with each other in VR. I think he might be right about that. It won't ever have perfect fidelity with the real world but it is far more accessible than buying a plane ticket to the point that it stands a chance of doing for social interaction what the web did for access to information. I think he's all in on it, I don't know if he'll succeed but he sure as hell is going to try.
- blueprint 4y ago
  people can hardly connect with each other in real life anymore
- RichardCA 4y ago
  "Traditional Social Media" = the triad of Email, Message Boards, and Chat. This has been true since the days of timesharing and BBS culture in the 70's / 80's and people will always have a natural affinity for that. If Meta abdicates that space, other things would fill its place. But I don't think we can go back to the era of thriving subcultures, the charm of novel connection, that we had in the 90's, so much has changed since then.
- Defitio 4y ago
  Suck is not on a mission to connect people. He is just a dude who got tremendously rich by fucking over people with the first social Media platform. If aliens have the same evolution, Facebook would have just be called something else. This his idiotic plan to pivot fb into the future because after WhatsApp and Instagram suddenly TikTok came. And if you believe in a future with VR and in the one platform paradigm than this investment is worth a lot but it's in my opinion a very big gamble while suck believe in it's being a smaller gamble. /shrug imagine suck actually believing in something worthwhile he actually could have used this by making a real working social media platform or start doing something for people like planting trees...

throwaway4aday 4y ago

I disagree. Zuck has a vision and he's made it pretty plain. He is pivoting his company away from traditional social media and attempting to transform it into a social VR company. He seems intent on making this happen even if he has to kill the facebook arm of the company in order to do so. The thing he says over and over is that he started facebook as a way to connect people and I think he sees the inherent limitations built into that system. You will never truly connect with someone through text and pictures on a webpage, even audio and video can't do it. He seems to believe, whether correct or not, that we can truly connect with each other in VR. I think he might be right about that. It won't ever have perfect fidelity with the real world but it is far more accessible than buying a plane ticket to the point that it stands a chance of doing for social interaction what the web did for access to information. I think he's all in on it, I don't know if he'll succeed but he sure as hell is going to try.

blueprint 4y ago
people can hardly connect with each other in real life anymore
RichardCA 4y ago
"Traditional Social Media" = the triad of Email, Message Boards, and Chat. This has been true since the days of timesharing and BBS culture in the 70's / 80's and people will always have a natural affinity for that. If Meta abdicates that space, other things would fill its place. But I don't think we can go back to the era of thriving subcultures, the charm of novel connection, that we had in the 90's, so much has changed since then.
Defitio 4y ago
Suck is not on a mission to connect people. He is just a dude who got tremendously rich by fucking over people with the first social Media platform. If aliens have the same evolution, Facebook would have just be called something else. This his idiotic plan to pivot fb into the future because after WhatsApp and Instagram suddenly TikTok came. And if you believe in a future with VR and in the one platform paradigm than this investment is worth a lot but it's in my opinion a very big gamble while suck believe in it's being a smaller gamble. /shrug imagine suck actually believing in something worthwhile he actually could have used this by making a real working social media platform or start doing something for people like planting trees...