It has been well known for a long time that Facebook is losing its popularity among the younger generation. After all, for all these years it has practically not changed at all, and in this industry, you have to constantly re-interest the user to stay with the application. This decreasing trend will probably not change anymore and more and more people will stop using this portal. By the way, incidents related to Facebook, which come to light all the time, certainly did not help it with the increase in popularity. However, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t giving up, and he continues to fight hard to keep us with his products.
Let’s be honest at the outset, this is certainly not about our well-being, the development of civilization, and the implementation of new technologies that make our lives easier. I wonder if the recent situation with the tightening of the privacy policy on Apple devices (which made Facebook lose 6 billion) had something to do with the presentation of the new product.
I’m still not convinced to entrust big companies with our entire lives. I don’t think giving them all our information and data is a good idea. It seems to me that for the present this technology should go mainly in the direction of entertainment. Playing games, virtual events, or keeping in touch with friends. After all, we live in a time where meeting up with friends may be difficult and not everyone has friends nearby. It seems contrived to me that we need virtual reality to do shopping or work. I don’t think it’s a priority to do business meetings (as our avatars) in virtual reality these days. In addition, various sources say that to personalize the appearance of our avatars you will have to pay extra.
The question is whether this technology won’t really put us out of business. Maybe it will allow us to cut off to everything that is not in accordance with our views and will not close us in a bubble of our ideas which are often wrong.
Another issue is how our data will be stored and what it might be used for. Taking into account all previous situations I do not want to believe that they will be stored safely and will not be used to sell me something for example.
Some time ago we already experienced the restriction of access to Facebook products and the question is whether something like this could happen again with the new technology as well. And since it would be implemented on such a scale, whether its temporary absence would not disrupt our functioning.
Another problem concerns the resources this new technology would use. Do we have such sources of resources and energy to be able to fulfill all our ideas without worrying about non-renewable resources or environmental pollution (which is not caused by ordinary people but by the activities of large companies)? I am not sure about that.
On the one hand, we want to go forward all the time, but on the other hand, we do not care about the consequences of our actions. I think that is a good summary sentence.
Sources:
- https://jacobinmag.com/2021/11/facebook-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg-play-to-earn-surveillance-tech-industry
- https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/experts-warn-facebooks-metaverse-poses-terrifying-dangers/
- https://globalnews.ca/news/8360260/facebook-whistleblower-fears-metaverse/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-metaverse-splinter-reality-more-2021-11?IR=T
Frankly, I’m sure that a simple rebranding will solve all Facebook’s problems. The world is changing, and better alternatives start to show up (such as Telegram, which is becoming more and more popular)
*won’t solve all Facebook’s problems