“The metaverse is the next frontier,” said Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg trying on Mark Zuckerberg outfits. Photo: Facebook Reality Labs Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s head honcho, on Thursday hosted a video walkthrough of what he believes the metaverse could be. “We believe the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet,” he said. In fact, he said a lot of things like this: “The metaverse is the next frontier.”
Creators — funny people, famous people, game streamers, cooking influencers, just generally hot people, makeup and beauty trendsetters, momfluencers, rogue therapists, financial pitchbros — are the backbone of the TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ecosystems. Notably, they’re absolutely not a part of Facebook. Signaling that the future of Facebook is all about people who make their living from fans is a very smart move.
For the rest of us, the metaverse isn’t quite as wonderful yet. For one thing, Facebook does not allow nudity on its platforms and so it’s unclear how people will have weird sex in the metaverse. Ghost friend. Photo: Facebook Reality Labs Then they talked about gaming and fitness and a combination of gaming and fitness . A brief moment was spent on education, which seems underdeveloped.
This ends nearly two weeks of rampant speculation about the future of Facebook and of Zuckerberg, the company’s co-founder, chief executive, and controlling shareholder. Facebook is now in the news constantly, since a former employee delivered images of thousands of pages of internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which were then redacted and distributed to Congress and a number of major news organizations, which began publishing a seemingly endless stream of stories in the last week.
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