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If you look at Facebook's original success then it was all down to being in the right place and the right time with the right product. It was one of those billi

If you look at Facebook's original success then it was all down to being in the right place and the right time with the right product. It was one of those billion to one scenarios that Zuck and those other two brothers arrived at through pure luck. People were giving away data online which other companies lusted after. Now how do you repeat that? Well you don't but other lucky startups can be bought which Facebook has a history of doing. Buy anything which might have social aspects to it and the dartboard eventually gets the bullseye hit. Now if you want to invest in your own product and make it a success then Facebook has no experience of doing that. It's why Metaverse is doomed to fail. Add in that users are leery of Facebook's motives and their perversions for spying on your every waking moment. Hopefully they will implode and die.

thefourthchime 3y ago
The "metaverse" was doomed is doomed to fail because it's not a real product, it's a dream. The tech just isn't there, it doesn't matter if Steve Jobs and Walt Disney rose from the dead to make it, it's not gonna happen. Stop trying to make it happen, Gretchen. Maybe in 10-20 years.
- JKCalhoun 3y ago
  I don't even think it's the tech though. I think people in fact want to turn off and tune out.
- esafak 3y ago
  They have money, expertise, and nothing better to spend it on, so I say let them try to make it happen.
  - brabel 3y ago
    Exactly... they know they're slowly heading for irrelevance if they don't come up with the next big thing. So it's all they can do, find something that only someone with 100 billion dollars can do, and go for it. TBH I don't see anything else they might try that may actually be a better choice (and no one criticizing them ever mention anything either).
    - HellDunkel 3y ago
      What if they just focussed on making Facebook/Instagram nice places with great marketplaces?

thefourthchime 3y ago

The "metaverse" was doomed is doomed to fail because it's not a real product, it's a dream. The tech just isn't there, it doesn't matter if Steve Jobs and Walt Disney rose from the dead to make it, it's not gonna happen. Stop trying to make it happen, Gretchen. Maybe in 10-20 years.

JKCalhoun 3y ago
I don't even think it's the tech though. I think people in fact want to turn off and tune out.
esafak 3y ago
They have money, expertise, and nothing better to spend it on, so I say let them try to make it happen.
- brabel 3y ago
  Exactly... they know they're slowly heading for irrelevance if they don't come up with the next big thing. So it's all they can do, find something that only someone with 100 billion dollars can do, and go for it. TBH I don't see anything else they might try that may actually be a better choice (and no one criticizing them ever mention anything either).
  - HellDunkel 3y ago
    What if they just focussed on making Facebook/Instagram nice places with great marketplaces?