https://twitter.com/metahorizon/status/1579947568372404226?s=46&t=fp5NNZ36eGM9IrMYX0tjaw
I once sat in a 360 review where the question “I trust my manager” got ZERO PERCENT. Said manager was in the room for the “candid discussion” session. This was at a huge public company with a good reputation.
There are exceptions, but most managers truly suck. Almost always, the only criteria upon which managers are actually evaluated is fealty to their own manager. Organizations have to be really thoughtful smart and diligent to avoid that dynamic and most don’t even try.
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The “my manager” questions in my extended team. (I.e. mostly about leaders in my team, not me) regularly get 80 or 90% positive in anonymous engagement surveys.
This is why it makes me sad. Shitty managers should not be the norm.
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My wife had a Zoom meeting and when the client took a sip of coffee, she saw he was drinking from a Let’s Go Brandon mug.
There’s 30+ million deplorable die hards in America, you’re going to run into them someday.
That 3 should be at least a 6.
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Meta initially set a goal of reaching 500,000 monthly active users for Horizon Worlds by the end of this year, but in recent weeks revised that figure to 280,000. The current tally is less than 200,000, the documents show.
Most visitors to Horizon generally don’t return to the app after the first month, and the user base has steadily declined since the spring, according to the documents, which include internal memos from employees.
By comparison, Meta’s social-media products, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, together attract more than 3.5 billion average monthly users—a figure equivalent to almost half the world’s population. Horizon is currently reaching less than the population of Sioux Falls, S.D.
Lol and what?
Horizon is designed to be a sprawling collection of interactive virtual spaces, or worlds, in which users appearing as avatars can shop, party and work. Yet there are rarely any girls in the Hot Girl Summer Rooftop Pool Party, and in Murder Village there is often no one to kill. Even the company’s showcase worlds, such as Questy’s, a virtual arcade featured in a Super Bowl commercial earlier this year, are mostly barren of users.
According to internal statistics, only 9% of worlds built by creators are ever visited by at least 50 people. Most are never visited at all.
LOLOLOLOL
On a recent night, a female Journal reporter visited one of Horizon’s most popular virtual worlds, the Soapstone Comedy Club. It had about 20 users in it, all appearing as avatars. When the reporter introduced herself and tried to conduct an interview with a small group, one user replied: “You can report on me, baby.” The same user then asked her to expose herself.
One user who was flirting with a woman in the crowd was interrupted by what appeared to be his real-life girlfriend yelling obscenities at him in the background.
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They’re just building a thing that very few people want. American culture seems much more lacking in genuine human connection and community than it is lacking an opportunity to dive deeper into a sectioned off universe of one’s own imagining to escape from reality. The Metaverse is just taking the worst things about the internet and making it 100% the bad stuff. It’s like noting that humans like to go to the grocery store to buy food and concluding that what they must want is a store that is 100% Twinkies.
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Again, putting all the most autistic people in charge of every platform for human social interaction seems somewhat sub optimal.
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You just think that because you haven’t processed the data from the human interaction algorithm.
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Th real problem with making an online world still is that we arent fucking there yet. There is no realism, hell we dont even have fucking lip syncing yet. Anybody that wants to spend more than 20 minutes in VR while not playing a game or watching a movie is a psychopath
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For 15 years Facebook was selling water in a desert and all their challenges were upscaling technical capacity and maximizing monetization.
How they go from that to thinking that people actually want whatever they decide people want just exposes their self delusion. The beauty of capitalism is that people get to decide what they want, not some idiots who think they understand people because they made a lot of money for reasons they don’t really understand.
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Zoom meetings are so much better than irl meetings, I have nfi why anyone wants to simulate irl meetings with VR goggles.
This probably depends on the type of meeting. I think if people are in a meeting where the purpose is just to get some information from a presenter and ask questions then Zoom makes a lot of sense. If you’re in a meeting where complex situations need to be explained, potential courses of action need evaluated, and clarity on next steps needs to be confirmed, then an in person meeting will be a lot better because those situations depend more on reading body language and facial expressions to gauge what everyone is thinking. This is a charitable explanation for why certain managers may be so insistent on getting people back in the office - managers are more likely to be finding themselves in those kinds of meetings. The Metaverse, of course, is just the worst of both worlds. You lose all the benefits of actual human to human interaction but make having basic Zoom calls unnecessarily complicated. Innovation!
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donuts tho
Zuck once said of Twitter that it was “as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in” but the exact same is true of Meta. Their flagship product (meaning Facebook) is in decline and is essentially a platform for scamming people now, there are news stories about how their codebase is such a hideous mess that nobody knows how it works or how to track user data, and they are building a completely delusional product that is a running joke among exactly the sort of terminally-online people it is supposed to appeal to. They are my slam dunk answer to “which brand in the world do you most associate with the words ‘disgust’ and ‘loathing’”. Their remaining products in good standing (Instagram and WhatsApp) are things that were built outside the company and purchased. It’s a testament to the power of network effects that a company this bereft of ideas is still a megacorporation.
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This crystallizes it better than I’ve ever heard.
Imaging thinking most people are clamoring for more online interaction since covid.
My friends had one zoom party, and my family had one zoom party. In both cases everyone clearly came to the conclusion that one was enough.
How many meetings have you been in where a complex problem has actually been addressed, with thoughtful and respectful discussion leading to the proper outcome, with a clear action plan in place coming out of the meeting?
For me that number is zero.