Zuck's company's latest big idea is inventing imaginary friends to make people feel good online, which is basically just a repackaging of his attempt to make people want to live in the Metaverse. Imaginary friends. - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 64 days ago

Zuck's company's latest big idea is inventing imaginary friends to make people feel good online, which is basically just a repackaging of his attempt to make people want to live in the Metaverse.

Imaginary friends.

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johnbrase.bsky.social•64 days ago

So it’s … The Sims™️ ?

slayerofunicorns.bsky.social•64 days ago

I don't think Zuck has ever invented anything, has he?

Is Facebook an 'invention'? How does that face off against the iPhone and it's world-changing portable camera?

we-are-toast.bsky.social•64 days ago

Zuckerman copied myspace and showed that he's a better salesman. Steve Jobs got most of his ideas (mouse, windows...) for the Macintosh from ZEROX research in Palo Alto, and Bill Gates got his break by copying the CP/M operating system to make MS-DOS.
Very few billionaires are self made.

mitycheese.bsky.social•64 days ago

Zuck copied HotOrNot. The MySpace stuff was just to keep people on the site longer.

pamelaoldham.bsky.social•64 days ago

Zuck is an empty suit.

zelluloidfreak.bsky.social•64 days ago

As if the Metaverse wasn‘t just a copy of Second Life… 😄

boekeloo.bsky.social•64 days ago

Like Elon, Zuck never invented anything. Just copied other's ideas. Even Jobs didn't invent the smartphone, he just perfected it.

claypotter.bsky.social•64 days ago

FB is basically a criminal network stealing money from seniors every day. Zuck doesn't care because he gets a cut.

riwoche.bsky.social•64 days ago

Zuck's new imaginary friends product comes on the virtual heels of the multibillion-dollar avatars with no legs project.

sanity56.bsky.social•64 days ago

If you were as inept as Suckersberg you would think fake online friends was a good idea too.

guiri99.bsky.social•64 days ago

Most “innovations” are simply repackaging ideas, services, products from others, in theory they also improve upon those
Ideas. Zuck’s Metaface simply buys others’ innovations then repackages them to make Metaface more money in their walled advertisement garden.

anne3477.bsky.social•64 days ago

I love vintage, but the 80’s perm making a comeback isn’t on my harbinger of doom bingo card

shaym114.bsky.social•64 days ago

Maybe this is the crux of his problem, the fact that he never had any real friends. Seriously.

patb70.bsky.social•64 days ago

For me, the Internet is imaginary.

webrant.bsky.social•64 days ago

Distraction. Isolation. Indoctrination.

The company used as a fascist tool for Myanmar's genocide continues.

https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3lfkbrivsqs22

the-old-dog.bsky.social•64 days ago

He figured if it works for him, it'd work for everybody

greenhombre.bsky.social•64 days ago

I deleted Facebook yesterday, after decades of providing free content. I refuse to participate in fact-free social media run by fascists. It feels like a tumor has been removed from my brain.

greenhombre.bsky.social•64 days ago

Also enjoying Pixelfed
https://pixelfed.social/GreenHombre

greenhombre.bsky.social•64 days ago

Checking out Frendica
https://friendica.world/profile/greenhombre

greenhombre.bsky.social•64 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/techcrunch.com/post/3lffxco7pkj23

wrestlingterp.bsky.social•64 days ago

I don't need no stinkin' imaginary friend. I just talk to myself.

No I don't.

Yes I do.

No I don't....

theothermatthew.bsky.social•64 days ago

Metaverse—I don’t think Meta was wholly responsible for inventing this concept, and it was a huge flop.
Threads—an Instagram-Twitter hybrid, neither of which they invented.
AI profiles—imaginary friends meet bot armies, already invented by children and Russia, respectively.

Mark shouldn’t talk.

mimicrochets.bsky.social•64 days ago

That seems very creepy to me and very Orwellian. No thank you. I like real people.

oldtownmimi.bsky.social•64 days ago

He stole a stupid rating site at his college, and users have created whatever value it has.

ridder.bsky.social•64 days ago

Maybe the reason for Zuck's move to MAGA is that he, consciously or not, knows that his company is literally going nowhere. So his only real future is to get on the grift train.

beturpin.bsky.social•64 days ago

‘They haven’t invented anything great in a while’

That might be because all the techbros are too busy circle-jerking in their ice baths and building bunkers in Hawaii to actually invent or innovate anything. They're middle aged dinosaurs waiting for the next innovation asteroid to hit.

calleycat.bsky.social•64 days ago

America does not need what Zuck is coming up with.
Do better Zuck.

cdv214.bsky.social•64 days ago

Stories circulating his knee surgery post didn’t get the response he wanted, so maybe thinking his imaginary world might get him more positive feedback he craves. https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-zuckerberg-scrapped-meta-policy-after-knee-surgery-post-failed-to-go-viral/

lindakj.bsky.social•64 days ago

Unless I was trying to raise money for medical treatment that a relative or friend desperately needed, but couldn’t afford, I can’t imagine caring whether one of my posts goes viral. Fun if it happens. If not,🤷🏻‍♀️. He must be such an insecure person.

fanofdemocracy.net•64 days ago

elon does the same thing with twitter. Engineers had to make his posts get more engagement because he's a little bitch too.

deeplyaware.bsky.social•64 days ago

And you want me to defend Tim Cook who donated a million to Trump inauguration? Fuck’em both!

wolfie52.bsky.social•64 days ago

"Imaginary friends" is the motto of Social Media. If I have a SINGULAR message, it is that SM is NOT the real world, and not even close.

zoopaul.bsky.social•64 days ago

He comes across as someone who spends too many hours a day engaging with imaginary friends while wired in.

danistone73.bsky.social•64 days ago

From someone who has no friends … makes sense 🤦🏻🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏽‍♂️

ilovedogs1954.bsky.social•62 days ago

This guy looks like a little boy trying to be a big man.

dystopos.bsky.social•64 days ago

Imaginary friends, without the imagination or the friendship, but at an enormous cost to the future of life on earth.

sjjennum.bsky.social•64 days ago

No time for whiney grievance BS. Just as Bluesky offered a viable (better) option to X, do consumers have a viable option to instagram/facebook?

monkscafe.bsky.social•64 days ago

Mr one hit wonder calling anyone out is rich…

pwrussell.bsky.social•64 days ago

Just because he needs imaginary friends to make up for not having any real ones, doesn’t mean we do.

sdowney.bsky.social•64 days ago

Tamogatchis for this century.

codykinski.bsky.social•64 days ago

Is it just me or is he starting to look like Julia Child?

limerick4inarow.bsky.social•64 days ago

I was going with Screech from Saved by the Bell but that works too.

arranquedex.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤣🤣🤣serán amigos imaginarios que te responderán, o será como hablarle a la pared 🤣🤣🤣

stonemom.bsky.social•64 days ago

To be fair, it's possible that Zuck himself needs imaginary friends - so that he will, you know, "have" some friends. So perhaps he thinks everyone shares in his predicament.

goldbud63.bsky.social•64 days ago

I honestly don't know why people stay on FB/Meta. I dumped it years ago.

timsewell.bsky.social•64 days ago

Given that he started out as not a very nice guy and then became a billionaire, imaginary friends are probably the best he's got.

davidrlurie.bsky.social•64 days ago

Bill Gates actually invented the idea of repackaging other people's ideas and making a bundle. Zuck didn't even come up with that on his own. :)

brobbie.bsky.social•64 days ago

I guess computers, cell phones, etc just pale in comparison to a social media platform. Sucks new doo looking like an llama

mariapereznm.bsky.social•64 days ago

His other big idea is to bring back the groomed poodle do

undeadben.bsky.social•64 days ago

aren't people on facebook fake enough one their own?

commanderbliss.bsky.social•64 days ago

Why advertise on Zuck’s platforms if you know that there’s a good chance actual buyers aren’t even seeing it?

bolivarfiles.com•64 days ago

My theory is that they will populate the metaverse, as there are some people who do use it. I'm sure one of the biggest complaints is there's not enough people here so he's going to create AI people to placate the few actual people rather than make it somewhere more people want to be.

bolivarfiles.com•64 days ago

And arguably creating fake people would be easier them making it somewhere people want to hang out because I don't think there's anything he could do to make me want to use the metaverse and I know most people feel the same.

markschweitzer.bsky.social•64 days ago

Even Zuckerberg's Imaginary Friends wouldn't want anything to do with him...

yogasanity.bsky.social•64 days ago

Reminder that Zuckerberg and the guys he stole facebook from started it based on rating the appearance of girls at Harvard. He is and always will be an awkward creep.

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