People are already being sexually assaulted in Facebook's Metaverse

Not shocked.

Still the amount of extra work given that platform your avatar has no legs or bottom that is impressive.

There is already a lot of kinky shit going on in other virtual platforms like VRChat and I can say from experience it can be very intimate and very intense. So I can really see harassment going on and having close to the same effects as it would IRL.

Hell, last night I was at a party in VR (Not in the shitty FB universe) and having a conversation and I realize over in the other side of the room somebody was being fucked hard. (Remote sex toys were in use) We were like, well… damn and had to move to the other side of the room but there were the occasional jokes about how much of a good time that person was having.

In the case of virtual social spaces harassment and other forms of gaslighting are a problem and will continue to be as there is no easy way to moderate that short of blocking people. I’ve dealt with all sorts of horrible emotional problems from people in the past 2 years in VR. Emotional blackmail as somebody fakes a suicide at me is one of those things that are draining at a very primal level.

Also, Fuck facebook’s social VR systems.

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