He's eager for anything to help him gain more wealth, because he doesn't have enough yet and enough is never enough.
Eager or desperate? They rebranded their entire company around a clusterfuck vr second life. Are they actually producing enough to stay relevant?
Facebook has been trending downhill for a long time. Threads I barely hear about. I don't hear as much about Oculus as I used to.
Facebook and shit don't matter much, but whatsapp is the primary form of communication for a good chunk of the world.
Fun fact: in some places, whatsapp and Facebook (and a few other sites) isn't even considered to be "internet". Like, if you don't pay an ISP you still get access to those. Then paying for "internet" gives you access to everything else.
Advertising is still the vast majority of their revenue, and as far as I can tell with a few quick Google searches a significant portion of that still comes from Facebook.
I'd be keenly interested in seeing actual numbers if you can locate them, because they don't appear easy to come by, but I seriously a doubt your assertion that their core product's add revenue doesn't matter to their bottom line.
AI slop is costing him more money than his android brain likes to admit.
Can we PLEASE make these people go away.
His secret bunker is on Maui.
Don't tell everyone.
The locals won't help you find it of you ask them.
They definitely don't hate him as much as all of us, or more.
And Larry Ellison doesn't conspicuously have a whole island in Hawaii that's thus easy to find and widely known. Except his locals seemed a little more wary to speak ill of him.
All these stories about VR, then metverse/crypto, then ai, and now gambling. It seems like Zuckerberg is trying to recreate the early success he had in an emerging field but, at a fundamental level, does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
Sometimes I think America cannot be a good place to live until the myth of the "tech genius" is thoroughly broken.
does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
That's every successful human. It's a known bias. The classic study was letting people play a rigged game of Monopoly. One random player gets double money among other advantages and wins of course. Afterwards the winner will always tell that it's because of their strategy or something like that, never they just got luckily.
Tech genius is only the most recent wave in this fad. We love our hero worship, which results in cycles of this type of thing.
The most recent example is probably the Robber Baron era of the guided age. Some notables of the time include Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, etc. Edison and Bell didn't reach that level of wealth, but they probably would have if they were alive today.
Don't worry, a lot of that money is still around wrapped up in family trusts. Sure, they've given a decent chunk away to white wash their names but these weren't good people.
Loot boxes and gatcha games:
Gabe Newell enters the chat.
tim sweeney tries to join the chat
Mike Waltz has added Jeffery Goldberg, say hello 👋
lolololol
Anyone working for meta is a piece of shit.
So we know that he is actively harming young people on Instagram. We know that he was showing ads for CASM content in India and is profitering from that. He know wants to hook young people on gambling. Maybe he should get a restraining order preventing him from interacting with children at all.
We know Facebook is knowingly ignoring human trafficking on Facebook....
Another sign that billionaires and Zuckerberg especially, have completely become out of touch with the rest of humanity.
We are merely consumers to them.
Always were. They simply have to come up with more ways to squeeze the rest out of their userbase to justify investments.
kinda unusual since hes a out of touch rich millennial.
Meta is desperate to corner the market on something, anything.
Alternate headline: Lord of a crumbling, gutted empire struggles to maintain relevancy
I wonder how effectively those glasses would protect his face from a baseball bat swung at full force. Probably not very well, but I'd pay good money to see it tested on him all the same.
I actually heard they are completely bullet-proof. Maybe musk could swing by with a metal ball and test that for us
android bodies likely wont feel any pain. his chassis has been reinforced through BJJ training.
Tax that dweed fuck so much he's afraid to show his face in public.
Why or how would a tax do that?
Because society added a "going in public" tax for assholes like him? We could do it
i follow, but there's a bedrock legal principle that the government can't levy a tax on one person. (basically they don't want the government picking on individuals) can't remember what it's called, but we'd need to make it broad enough it's not focused specifically on him. which would lower the effectiveness of the Billionaires In Public Gotta Pay Me Money Because Fuck Them tax
Have you seen any of the games that are available on Android and iOS devices for kids to play? They have been priming children for gambling for many many years. The sounds and visuals they use in the way they introduce prizes and features as rewards for playing mini games and various "mystery box" items they can get. They are virtually identical to any and all gambling apps as well as casino slot machines.
I hate this guy
Not that I ever wanted the perv glasses, but seeing this creepy ugly toad fucker wearing those makes me never want a frame remotely similar to them
For those who may have forgotten, the little prince of Meta more or less started with Facemash, a site that displayed two photos side by side and asked users to vote for which person was "more attractive," using a mechanism similar to "Hot or Not."
All "funny" if it weren't for:
Not to mention what happened with Cambridge Analytica.
What do people expect from a mind like that?
Mark Zuckerberg shizzle sounds eaga to get young peeps hooked on online gamblin
Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.
everything he sells is addiction
French style revolution is the only solution
preying on the degenerate, by making degenerate app.
Meta also hopes to implement parts of Arena into Facebook and its messaging app, Messenger, attaching betting options to group chats, news feeds, and videos.
“We believe that prediction markets are one of the more interesting new content types,” Ime Archibong, a senior Meta official leading Arena’s development, reportedly said in an internal company post last month. “The social conversation is the payoff as people aim to show off how good they are at predicting things to their friends.”
The strategy appears to be: betting as content, gamifying gambling to become social. It’s a framing that could open the door to harmful situations, especially for the young people he’s going after. According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, 2.5 million US adults, or about 1 percent of Americans, meet the diagnostic mental health criteria of severe gambling addiction. An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.
I suppose the wealthy probably should have all of the money.
Although wouldn't that make it easier to just switch to a different currency? If I can't get dollars cause the wealthy have all of it, dollars are essentially worthless to me.
Always has been (eager to get young people addicted)
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