Facebook: why you have to take the metavers seriously

Dear subscribers,

I've read a lot of disillusioned or sly comments following the announcement last week of Facebook's name change and its plans for virtual reality.

The Californian company, renamed

, would seek to create a diversion following the revelations of the whistleblower Frances Haugen.

The social network, which could be as harmful to mental health as tobacco is to the body, would apply the same recipe as Philip Morris, renamed Altria in 2003.

Let us try, the time of this letter, to extract ourselves from this vision.

I believe Mark Zuckerberg when he says that:

• The Facebook name change had been underway for several months;

• With the metavers, this universe of virtual reality in gestation, it prepares nothing less than "

  the future of the Internet

  ".

If we do not want to avoid waking up in five years, overwhelmed by the metaverse and the issues it raises, it is better to take the founder of Facebook seriously.

Let's see why.

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