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Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done
His social network has Meta-stasized
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/29/zuckerberg_meta_facebook/
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You may think that this is just a cheap and cynical rebranding exercise to mitigate the ongoing controversies in which Facebook is mired. But this move goes way beyond that. We’re well beyond an organization renaming itself to simply signal a change in direction or attitude. We’re beyond a company trying to shed its toxic image. This isn’t an antidote to the poison.
Mark Zuckerberg has gone off the deep end.
The name change heralds the reorganization of the Facebook empire around a single concept: the metaverse. To Zuckerberg, the term – coined by Neal Stephenson in the sci-fi novel Snow Crash – describes an internet-connected fantasy world in which everything and everyone is virtual and perfect.
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