Facebook Got Sucked into the Metaverse

Hmmm, have you heard thenews?

Facebook is no longer Facebook. Well, it still is what it was, but it is just calledsomething different: Meta. How isthat pronounced? Meta as in metaverse.What is the metaverse? Hold on, let us not get ahead of ourselves.

Facebook was not just Facebook. It was also Instagramand What’s App (and a bunch of othersubsidiaries) which were part of Facebookonly different. Different how? Well, Instagramand What’s App are platforms intheir own right. Well not platformsin the traditional sense of that word. They do not physically exist.

Well, that is not trueeither. They exist but not in the traditionalsense of that word. Which word? Exist,as in they occupy a physical space, except that they do not. That is what I meantwhen I said they exist but they donot exist.

Does that mean they areboth visible and invisible? Well, yes, sort of, but not in the traditional senseof that word. Which word? Come on, stay with me! The word is visible which is now divisible into whatis visible and that which is invisible.

Are you following me?No? What I am trying to say is I understand all of this, although not in the traditionalsense of that word. I comprehend itbut it is no longer necessary to understandthings as long as you comprehend themin the virtualrealm.

Well, not virtual in thetraditional sense of the word virtual.Well, it could be the traditional sense of that word if you are under 30. Butif you are over 40, it will be a different meaning of that word.

What happened to thepeople between 30 and 40? Well, I guess they got sucked into the metaverse (which is kind of like a blackhole but not really). I cannot actually say that for a fact but it seems like areasonable assumption, although that not in the traditional sense of reasonable.

Where was I? Oh yes, Facebook – which includes Instagram and What’s App – is now Meta,as in metaverse. So Facebook does notexist anymore? Well, it never really existedin the traditional sense of the word. But it still exists as it always has in the sense that you can still sign ontoit. But not sign in the traditional sense of sign on.

What I am trying toexplain to you is that Facebook wasalways more than just Facebook. Well,not at first, or course, but for quite some time now. Facebook was the sum of its parts, although not in the traditionalsense of that phrase.

You really have to stopbeing so literal or we are never going to figure this out. Not that I have itall figured out, but I figure I understand enough to comprehend it,figuratively speaking, of course.

Bottom line: Facebook is now Meta as in metaverse. Metaverseis kind of a metaphor although not in the traditional sense of that word.

Got it now? Good, couldyou please explain it to me?

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