RV Travel and Facebook (Or Is it Meta?)

Above, Mark Zuckerberg. Wikipedia photo by Anthony Quintano.

Earlier this month, RV Travel conducted a survey of its readers on their feelings about Facebook.

The question was, “Do you wish Facebook would go away and never come back?” 

The response of over 3,000 RV Travel responding readers was a resounding one. Those who responded with, "Yes, absolutely" was 77% and those who responded to "No, I want it to stay" was 23%,

While this was interesting, an follow-up article posted today by Chuck Woodbury was also interesting.

In it, he gave a little history of Facebook's origins.

Here's some snippets:

Facebook is gone. It’s changed it company name to Meta. No kidding! The website will remain known as Facebook and continue to live at Facebook.com.

The new corporate name is “a move to embrace the metaverse” according to the website GamesBeat. So what does that mean? Let me clarify: The metaverse is “an alternate reality that lives online. . . . a platform or series of platforms that share interoperable code to enable individuals to carry their online identities and (more importantly) their purchases from one experience to the next.”

Got that?

OK, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. I don’t either, as in I don’t have a clue! But I am pretty sure what it means is that it’s a sneaky way for Mark Zuckerberg to learn more about you so he can extract more money from your wallet, your bank accounts and your children’s college funds. The poor guy is only worth $70 billion dollars. How does a guy get by on that?

And, to think Zuckerberg started Facebook as a way for Harvard guys to rate “hot” (and not so “hot”) Harvard girls, and then it grew to become a major force in wiping out thousands of newspapers and other periodicals by allowing foreign governments and any semi-literate human to post fake stories and information, and in the process promote anger and turn everybody against their family members and neighbors because they didn’t buy “hook, line and sinker” into their favorite cockeyed, wacko, unproven conspiracy theory.

Interesting, isn't it? Or, as Mr. Spock used to say, "Fascinating!"

To read the full article, go here.