Something, something, MySpaceâŚ
Friendster?
All the [whatever]VZ sites!
Which, tbf, were shameless copies of Facebook and deserved their fate.
I wonder whether I still have my StudiVZ accountâŚ
Oh you kids with your fancy social networks⌠back in the day GeoCities was where itâs at.
Maybe we should revive GeoCities as a retro-hipster thing. Instead of terrible site design we can have ironic terrible site design!
A key issue with Horizonâs development to date, according to Shahâs internal memos, is that the people building it inside Meta appear to not be using it that much. âFor many of us, we donât spend that much time in Horizon and our dogfooding dashboards show this pretty clearly,â he wrote to employees on September 15th. âWhy is that? Why donât we love the product weâve built so much that we use it all the time? The simple truth is, if we donât love it, how can we expect our users to love it?â
In a follow-up memo dated September 30th, Shah said that employees still werenât using Horizon enough, writing that a plan was being made to âhold managers accountableâ for having their teams use Horizon at least once a week. âEveryone in this organization should make it their mission to fall in love with Horizon Worlds. You canât do that without using it. Get in there. Organize times to do it with your colleagues or friends, in both internal builds but also the public build so you can interact with our community.â
Theyâre hovering so close to self awareness here. Nobody inside the company wants to use their product that much, and instead of seeing this as a clear sign that the product isnât viable or useful, managementâs answer is to force people to use it more.
Meta canât fail; it can only be failed.
Meta is too fail to big.
