Friday, October 29th 2021
Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company
Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together Facebook's apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta's focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.
The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today's online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can't be together — and do things together you couldn't do in the physical world. -It's the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it's ushering in a new chapter for the company. Zuckerberg shared more about this vision in a founder's letter.
The annual Connect conference brings together augmented and virtual reality developers, content creators, marketers and others to celebrate the industry's momentum and growth. This year's virtual event explored what experiences in the metaverse could feel like over the next decade - from social connection, to entertainment, gaming, fitness, work, education and commerce. The company also announced new tools to help people build for the metaverse, including Presence Platform, which will enable new mixed reality experiences on Quest 2, and a $150-million investment in immersive learning to train the next generation of creators.
You can watch the full Connect keynote and learn more about how the metaverse will unlock new opportunities at meta.com. You can also learn more about the company's work over the past several months to develop the Meta brand on its design blog.
Facebook's corporate structure is not changing as Meta. However, how it reports on financials will. Starting with results for the fourth quarter of 2021, the company plans to report on two operating segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs. Meta also intends to start trading under the new stock ticker that the company reserved, MVRS, on December 1. Today's announcement does not affect how the company uses or shares data.
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
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The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today's online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can't be together — and do things together you couldn't do in the physical world. -It's the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it's ushering in a new chapter for the company. Zuckerberg shared more about this vision in a founder's letter.
You can watch the full Connect keynote and learn more about how the metaverse will unlock new opportunities at meta.com. You can also learn more about the company's work over the past several months to develop the Meta brand on its design blog.
Facebook's corporate structure is not changing as Meta. However, how it reports on financials will. Starting with results for the fourth quarter of 2021, the company plans to report on two operating segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs. Meta also intends to start trading under the new stock ticker that the company reserved, MVRS, on December 1. Today's announcement does not affect how the company uses or shares data.
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
108 Comments on Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company
Damn shit stains.
Bringin a shitnado of nothing but with a hell of a racket.
This is just Facebook being split into multiple companies to limit legal damage to the total wealth pool if only one of the entities faces litigation.
Too many people are confused and detached(from reality) and unwilling to step away. Then they start the blame game and point fingers left, right and centre without facts.
Lame.
They, as Google with their cheap devices, managed to find a massive market in undeveloped third world countries, making contracts with mobile providers to even make it fully free (otherwise people would have to pay for data to use it) I dunno, kinda saddens me to watch fellas my age (or older) glued to their phones unaware of everything Fac... ahem, Meta is mining from them.
There were some hilarious news not so long ago about national intelligence agents using WhatsApp to "point" to surveillance targets (guys they should spy on) and talk about supposedly top secret missions in a group until one day it got leaked, the morons even used their actual names instead of nicknames. The fact that Meta knows about all of this is creepy, out of the cyberpunk dystopia.
Imagine if the CIA or KGB used WhatsApp to chat about assassinations, kidnappings and prisoners, and the lists got leaked.
If it's free, you are the product.
Discussion the gits.
And ends like this :
Scale Techpowerup to billions of active users worldwide, and there is no difference.
You're right inasmuch as this can't solely be blamed on algorithms, but I don't think anyone here is doing that. What is being said is that due to the algorithms in place working as they do, being designed in the way they are, this serves to afford a specific set of interactions and behaviours. If people didn't in some way like these behaviours, this would likely not be a problem. But similarly, if these behaviours were not being afforded, or even promoted, by the algorithms, then people would most likely not take part in them to nearly the same degree.
I mean, the field of media effects and media reception has been studied for the better part of a century, and the main findings from this is that there is no such thing as a simple answer. Rather, how people relate to each other through social media, and how they relate to social media itself, is intrinsically bound up in the dynamics of these interactions, the affordances of the systems, the relations in play, the specific forms of mediation involved and how they affect how we view and relate to other people, and a whole host of other factors. Algorithms are just one piece of this puzzle. But its a major piece, one that ties together many if not most of the others, one that has a strong deterministic effect on the specific actions encouraged and afforded by the others, and crucially, is for the most part a black box, created with goals that are not necessarily aligned with (and potentially in direct conflict with) the goals of users. A large-scale system of communication that systemically privileges emotionally laden communication will over time encourage more emotionally laden posting and more emotional responses, as that is the behaviour afforded by the system, and other behaviours are similarly discouraged by the design of the system. This isn't a 1:1 relation in any way, but there is a clear direction to it still.