"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

Faced with a similar sitch, I’d probably accept. Junior high was a special time

a time I'd never like to relive

Sorry brah

Accepting them would put Sarah Huckabee Sanders into my timeline faster than a heartbeat.

Thread name change request.

Don't think the site's name is changing? Kind of like Google brands now being under "Alphabet"?

change the thread title to "Illegal Money Laundering Scheme discussion thread"

o i c

xpost

I vote for YouFace

can i say you launder my money on Facebook?

can I say you're my bookfriend on Facegirl?

dude, meta

never meta bookfriend I didn't like

i think of it as The Birthday Site

There's no I in Meta

Meta = Eat M

So close

But there is a "me"!

".. a lot of us will be creating and inhabiting worlds that are just as detailed and convincing as this one, on a daily basis."

So while you're actually working graveyard on a poultry processing line, your Meta-Me can be soaking in a crowded hot tub in Monaco

How did I miss that Facebook has a tech guru avatar called Boz?

1.) everyone will keep calling the company "Facebook", just like everyone still calls Alphabet "Google"

2.) i take it this is just so if lawmakers try to make them divest Instagram (which really should have triggered antitrust issues when they bought it IMO) they can pretend "oh it's all just another service that Meta provides, it can't really be separated"

Yeah, he's probably going to announce an exciting new strategic partnership with the Cayman Islands as well

it would only take a tiny bit of effort for zuck to achieve mark davis hair

he wants us plugged into vr machines all the time right?

seems very ominous.

This is hell.

WATCH: Sneak Peek at Facebook metaverse pic.twitter.com/rUGGiJeMLr

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 28, 2021

who wants this?

Rebooting Second Life after less than 20 years is a bold move.

PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR POOR DOG DICKHEADS

That animation looks like a Nickelodeon show from 2003

https://i.imgur.com/KOAR7Vq.png

Penis head

People announcing bullshit (also looking at you Apple keynote presenters) need to put their hands down

Oh wait. I remember this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8

People announcing bullshit (also looking at you Apple keynote presenters) need to put their hands down

There are local TV ads featuring some NY state health official encouraging people to get vaccinated (and get flu shots) and I can't fucking stand to watch them because the guy giving the spiel a) only says about two words at a time before pausing for dramatic effect, and it never follows natural speech rhythms, it's like if Christopher Walken had aphasia and b) has clearly stolen all of his hand gestures from obsessively watching YouTube videos of Obama from 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkYBbM9YyM

Why does it seem like every 5 or so years there's this big VR push, when afaict no one gives a fuck about VR, wearing VR goggles, hanging out in VR rooms doing VR stuff, etc.? Leave that shit for astronauts and surgeons to use and stop trying to convince me it has a real purpose or place in our lives.

I'm pretty convinced that very few people want a screen on their face, but I’m probably just an old guy.

VR won’t take off for mass adoption until VR porn feels like getting your dick sucked instead of just looking like it.

I've seen clips on Pornhub that are designed to be watched while wearing VR goggles and they're fucking bizarre to look at, like footage of conjoined twins shot through the world's most warped fisheye lens.

Thank you for your sacrifice

no one gives a fuck about VR

Maybe the bedridden, agoraphobic, the prisoner, etc. But yeah it's pretty clunky at this stage

feels like getting your dick sucked instead of just looking like it

Brainstorm (1983) was a cautionary tale

https://vhistory.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/watching-porn-on-company-equipment.jpg

I would be too afraid of the soulless avatar of MarkZuck to ever venture far into the Metaverse.

Mark's VR head is gonna suck our dicks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3drvj0CC8

finally set to appropriate music

(probably start the video a few minutes in)

Rolling 2021 Meta Thread

actually Meta is the name of the company. Facebook is the monster

— BR⚢KE (@BabblingBrookeA) October 29, 2021

Ad is creepy. Name is dumb. I kind of feel like deleting FB but more likely I’ll just keep using it the way I use it and never migrate to any of the VR bullshit.

I'm no business expert but surely things that need fancy peripherals never really take off?

How many cycles of "VR is just about to take off, massively" have we been through now?

Still only know two people irl who actually have Oculus headsets and, afaict, they are both gathering dust in a corner.

I literally know no one. I feel like I've been wrong about technology adoption enough times before that I won't place any bets, not to mention that Facebook has the market power to push this stuff really hard if it wants to. But I find nothing remotely appealing about Zuck's pitches for this. I just sat through a video that involved friends meeting up on some kind of virtual spaceship to play poker only to be constantly interrupted by people messaging them to check out a video of a dog, and also one of them is a robot that doesn't look anything like the real person. During COVID I did about three zoom hangouts and a couple of virtual movie watches with friends and they were all kind of depressing - better than literally nothing but hardly the future I want. Not seeing how strapping on a headset is going to make that better.