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It is important to study the words and actions of your enemy. As such, I know many may never see this message, but I offer it here copied for those who choose this battle to study it. Like it or not, he isn't going away, and he has great money, power, and influence. So we must study, and be ready to act as each of us feels called appropriate. I offer it as copied directly from his account a few minutes ago:

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Mark Zuckerberg
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FOUNDER'S LETTER, 2021
We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it's the next chapter for our company too.
In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselves more naturally. When I started Facebook, we mostly typed text on websites. When we got phones with cameras, the internet became more visual and mobile. As connections got faster, video became a richer way to share experiences. We've gone from desktop to web to mobile; from text to photos to video. But this isn't the end of the line.
The next platform will be even more immersive -- an embodied internet where you're in the experience, not just looking at it. We call this the metaverse, and it will touch every product we build.
The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence -- like you are right there with another person or in another place. Feeling truly present with another person is the ultimate dream of social technology. That is why we are focused on building this.
In the metaverse, you'll be able to do almost anything you can imagine -- get together with friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create -- as well as completely new experiences that don't really fit how we think about computers or phones today. We made a film that explores how you might use the metaverse one day.
In this future, you will be able to teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents' living room to catch up. This will open up more opportunity no matter where you live. You'll be able to spend more time on what matters to you, cut down time in traffic, and reduce your carbon footprint.
Think about how many physical things you have today that could just be holograms in the future. Your TV, your perfect work setup with multiple monitors, your board games and more -- instead of physical things assembled in factories, they'll be holograms designed by creators around the world.
You'll move across these experiences on different devices -- augmented reality glasses to stay present in the physical world, virtual reality to be fully immersed, and phones and computers to jump in from existing platforms. This isn't about spending more time on screens; it's about making the time we already spend better.
OUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY
The metaverse will not be created by one company. It will be built by creators and developers making new experiences and digital items that are interoperable and unlock a massively larger creative economy than the one constrained by today's platforms and their policies.
Our role in this journey is to accelerate the development of the fundamental technologies, social platforms and creative tools to bring the metaverse to life, and to weave these technologies through our social media apps. We believe the metaverse can enable better social experiences than anything that exists today, and we will dedicate our energy to helping achieve its potential.
As I wrote in our original founder's letter: "we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services."
This approach has served us well. We've built our business to support very large and long term investments to build better services, and that's what we plan to do here.
The last five years have been humbling for me and our company in many ways. One of the main lessons I've learned is that building products people love isn't enough.
I've gained more appreciation that the internet's story isn't straightforward. Every chapter brings new voices and new ideas, but also new challenges, risks, and disruption of established interests. We'll need to work together, from the beginning, to bring the best possible version of this future to life.
Privacy and safety need to be built into the metaverse from day one. So do open standards and interoperability. This will require not just novel technical work -- like supporting crypto and NFT projects in the community -- but also new forms of governance. Most of all, we need to help build ecosystems so that more people have a stake in the future and can benefit not just as consumers but as creators.
This period has also been humbling because as big of a company as we are, we've also learned what it's like to build on other platforms. Living under their rules has profoundly shaped my views on the tech industry. I've come to believe that the lack of choice for consumers and high fees for developers are stifling innovation and holding back the internet economy.
We've tried to take a different approach. We want our services to be accessible to as many people as possible, which means working to make them cost less, not more. Our mobile apps are free. Our ads model is designed to provide businesses the lowest prices. Our commerce tools are available at cost or with modest fees. As a result, billions of people love our services and hundreds of millions of businesses rely on our tools.
That's the approach we want to bring to helping to build the metaverse. We plan to sell our devices at cost or subsidized to make them available to more people. We'll continue supporting side-loading and streaming from PCs so people have choice, rather than forcing them to use the Quest Store to find apps or reach customers. And we'll aim to offer developer and creator services with low fees in as many cases as possible so we can maximize the overall creative economy. We'll need to make sure we don't lose too much money along the way though.
Our hope is that within the next decade, the metaverse will reach a billion people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce, and support jobs for millions of creators and developers.
WHO WE ARE
As we embark on this next chapter, I've thought a lot about what this means for our company and our identity.
We're a company that focuses on connecting people. While most tech companies focus on how people interact with technology, we've always focused on building technology so people can interact with each other.
Today we're seen as a social media company. Facebook is one of the most used technology products in the history of the world. It's an iconic social media brand.
Building social apps will always be important for us, and there's a lot more to build. But increasingly, it's not all we do. In our DNA, we build technology to bring people together. The metaverse is the next frontier in connecting people, just like social networking was when we got started.
Right now our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can't possibly represent everything we're doing today, let alone in the future. Over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company, and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we're building towards.
We just announced that we're making a fundamental change to our company. We're now looking at and reporting on our business as two different segments: one for our family of apps and one for our work on future platforms. Our work on the metaverse is not just one of these segments. The metaverse encompasses both the social experiences and future technology. As we broaden our vision, it's time for us to adopt a new brand.
To reflect who we are and the future we hope to build, I'm proud to share that our company is now Meta.
Our mission remains the same -- it's still about bringing people together. Our apps and their brands aren't changing either. We're still the company that designs technology around people.
But all of our products, including our apps, now share a new vision: to help bring the metaverse to life. And now we have a name that reflects the breadth of what we do.
From now on, we will be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first. That means that over time you won't need a Facebook account to use our other services. As our new brand starts showing up in our products, I hope people around the world come to know the Meta brand and the future we stand for.
I used to study Classics, and the word "meta" comes from the Greek word meaning "beyond". For me, it symbolizes that there is always more to build, and there is always a next chapter to the story. Ours is a story that started in a dorm room and grew beyond anything we imagined; into a family of apps that people use to connect with one another, to find their voice, and to start businesses, communities, and movements that have changed the world.
I'm proud of what we've built so far, and I'm excited about what comes next -- as we move beyond what's possible today, beyond the constraints of screens, beyond the limits of distance and physics, and towards a future where everyone can be present with each other, create new opportunities and experience new things. It is a future that is beyond any one company and that will be made by all of us.
We have built things that have brought people together in new ways. We've learned from struggling with difficult social issues and living under closed platforms. Now it is time to take everything we've learned and help build the next chapter.
I'm dedicating our energy to this -- more than any other company in the world. If this is the future you want to see, I hope you'll join us. The future is going to be beyond anything we can imagine.


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"The trouble with our Liberal friends...is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan, 1964
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"Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn't matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board, strut around knocking over all the pieces and act like it won.. and in some cases it will insult you at the same time." DevlDogs55, 2014 Big Grin
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Unnecessarily verbose. It is as if he wanted to win a contest of how many times you can use meta in a sentence. This is not the future I want. Maybe he will become a hologram.
 
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Maybe he will become a hologram.


I'd prefer he'd transition to not even a shadow of his former self. Big Grin



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I didn't read past the 1st line and couldn't care less what that asshole has to say Roll Eyes

I also couldn't care less that he's changing the name of his stupid company (I saw the headline while reading news headlines earlier today.) I would never see that stupid letter as I don't use Fakebook. Mark Zuckerberg can eat shitMad
 
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as we move beyond what's possible today, beyond the constraints of screens, beyond the limits of distance and physics, and towards a future where everyone can be present with each other, create new opportunities and experience new things. It is a future that is beyond any one company and that will be made by all of us.







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Originally posted by remsig:
I didn't read past the 1st line and couldn't care less what that asshole has to say Roll Eyes

I also couldn't care less that he's changing the name of his stupid company (I saw the headline while reading news headlines earlier today.) I would never see that stupid letter as I don't use Fakebook. Mark Zuckerberg can eat shitMad


Amen. Fuck him. He belongs in prison with Jarod from Subway. Him and his bitch wife need to be careful. I’ve got close friends in Maui, and they have relatives on all the islands. Apparently, the Natives are real fucking pissed off at Zuckernuts and his estate on Kauai is buried in controversy. He better have a mercenary detail attached to him while on the island as they are fucking pissed.

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Unnecessarily verbose. It is as if he wanted to win a contest of how many times you can use meta in a sentence. This is not the future I want. Maybe he will become a hologram.


Agreed. Not only do I not have any interest in this virtualized globalized world devoid of human touch and replaced with sensory substitution, it sounds positively dismal, bleak, and superficial to me...akin to living in a video game nightmare, orchestrated by a one world utopian delusional elitist who worships at the altar of Tech.



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His message evokes thoughts of the “AntiChrist”.


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Its not metaverse. Its egoverse.


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I hope those pissed off natives in Hawaii get a hold of that election stealing prick. Real soon too! Regards 18DAI


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The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence -- like you are right there with another person or in another place.


And we will be right there with you. In your home, in your car, everywhere. Trust me, it will be rewarding (for me).



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Meta - Meta data collected about you.
Usage: All your personal meta (information) belong to us to be used for good or evil.



“We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,”
Pres. Select, Joe Biden

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they already have all that data.... I discovered it a few years ago applying for some account with UPS... and when I was done, to prove I was who I said I was the web site asked me three questions, I can't remember the third but the first was my wife's birthday.... she kept her maiden name and I did not mention her in the application,.. the second was choose which of the vehicles I have owned ..... that third one was just like the others.... it was frightening....

I don't know if Zuckerberg is the anti-Christ or not... but I only got through about the first three sentences..... there are people who think more is better and show it in their post.... oops... I might be one.... watch out.


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This insufferable dork needs to be eaten by a shark while surfing.

It's the best possible outcome for the rest of the world.

Everything he does is a virtual cancer upon us all.
 
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Such typical hypocritical bullshit, talking about “presence” from the person most responsible for a global lack of presence due to his life sucking platform. His work, and others like him, are the enemy’s of society.


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Almost every single popular big tech company today could shutter and disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't miss any of them. I mean, you know, the online mapping and navigation is cool, and basic phone and text are great, this forum is great, safely ordering products online is cool, but most of the rest, I could do without it all I think, and we'd be better off for it, I bet.

And I spent 20+yrs building that online shit. And fuck most of it, really. Largely useless tripe. Smile
 
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