![]() ![]() ![]() You're reacting here as thought it's JUST about moving away (or not). You DO realize that it's not at the expense of MERELY staying in a small, provincial, homogeneous place, right? It's ALSO continuing to embrace the blinkered worldview that growing up in such a place engenders. I hesitate to respond to you again because I think you've dug your heels in here on finding the joke troublesome, but: When it is as all encompassing as the Metaverse announcement, you know something is up. Weak quarters mean that product announcements get pushed up. If you've ever worked at a highly visible tech pubco, you've seen this happen before. The reason the Metaverse was such a non sequitur is that it is so clearly a last minute thrust coming out of the C-Suite. One is to anti-trust Apple (in the media at least), and the other is to hand wave (Metaverse). They are going to try to do a few things. The very idea that Zuckerberg straight up said they need to copy the competition harder is incomprehensible considering the resources they have. But Reels are less good than TikTok, and whatever they are doing for short form video in Facebook is surely a hopeless game of catch up. Instagram's discovery page is a prime example. ![]() They are doing everything they can to try to move in this direction, but the more they push it the less useful Facebook is for the average user. The reason most people are still going to Facebook is incompatible with their primary activities online which is: consuming content from people-you-don't-know.įacebook is where you find out your highschool friend is super in to a MLM, your uncle has drastic political views you don't share, and that your historical social class and network is largely irrelevant to your life a decade later. This isn't just Apple privacy and some regulatory strangulation. The entire premise FB was founded on is eroding. Twitter timeline changes being an awkward but working example. TikTok and Youtube are the OGs here, but it's everywhere when you start to look. People just want the latest, catchiest content. Almost nobody wants to see what their friends are doing online anymore. There is something else going on around FB.Īlmost all activity online has shifted away from the Social Graph to a Content Graph. ![]()
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