Mark Zuckerberg now calls Meta employees 'metamates'.
Facebook's obsession with everything 'meta' is getting annoying
Mark "Meta" Zuckerberg. Credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images |
The company formerly known as Facebook would like you to know that it's all about the metaverse. And it's not going to stop until the word is imprinted in your brain — even though no one is really sure what it means.
In a public note posted on Facebook and directed primarily at employees, Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook and CEO of its umbrella company Meta Platforms Inc, has outlined a new set of values that he believes the company's employees should adhere to.
Meta employees should "move fast," he wrote, "build awesome things," and "live in the future." They should also "focus on long-term impact," and "be direct" while respecting their colleagues. These wisdom nuggets sound nice though they mean very little if the corporation behind them doesn't create an environment in which its employees can truly live by them — and there are indications that Facebook hasn't always done that (unless "long-term impact" means "bigger profits down the line.")
But the one guideline that will surely catch everyone's attention is the mention of "Meta, Metamates, Me," which Zuckerberg claims, "is about being good stewards of our company and mission. It's about the sense of responsibility we have for our collective success and to each other as teammates. It's about taking care of our company and each other."
I guess Meta employees are now referred to by the company as "metamates," which is a continuation of Zuckerberg's insistence of distancing from anything "face" and focusing on everything "meta."
That's kind of awkward. In a military context, the "ship, shipmates, self" phrase has different connotations than in the context of working for a corporation — does Meta really expect its employees to put the company's wellbeing in front of their own?
The term "metamates" would also probably make more sense if anyone really knew what Meta means by "meta."
A short history of Meta's metaverse
Last year, Zuckerberg started insisting that Facebook's future is a virtual experience called the "metaverse." In October 2021, Facebook was rebranded as Meta Platforms, a new umbrella corporation that owns social media properties including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Soon after, Meta announced massive spending and hiring plans in order to build the metaverse, and the word "meta" started appearing across the company's ecosystem of apps.
Nothing strange about that; it's the company's new name after all. But what is the metaverse, really? While talking about the term, Zuckerberg mentioned virtual reality, augmented reality, games, virtual meetings, and (for some reason) NFTs, among other things, but it's unclear how it all connects in a cohesive whole (by the way, you should read our primer on the history of the term "metaverse").
Let me tell you what Facebook's metaverse is right now: it's a few tools for meetings in virtual environments. It's games and experiences on Facebook's Oculus virtual reality platform. It's a pair of not-very-good smart glasses. It's a failed digital currency project. It's a vague notion that people will soon be spending a large portion of their lives in fully virtual worlds (a notion in which Apple, notably, doesn't seem to believe in right now). It's something that reportedly sounds worrying even to some Meta employees. And it's a bunch of rumors and teasers about Meta's upcoming products and services. It's not nothing, but it's definitely not taking over the world.
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ReplyDeleteIs getting annoying?
ReplyDeleteIt's been annoying for a long time.
METAMATES LMAO wtf is that
ReplyDelete"But the one guideline that will surely catch everyone's attention is the mention of "Meta, Metamates, Me," which Zuckerberg claims, "is about being good stewards of our company and mission. It's about the sense of responsibility we have for our collective success and to each other as teammates. It's about taking care of our company and each other."
ReplyDeleteLMAO
This guy is strange
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ReplyDeleteStarted, towards the exits, the staff has.
ReplyDeletehttps://imgur.com/t/empire/xpRAk
Looking forward to my company meeting with the rest of the Truecrew next week :0
ReplyDeleteHave you met with your metamates yet today? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ReplyDeleteÖnce çalışanları "metamatlar" yapmaya çalılan ardından da,kullanıcıları otomatik ödeme yapan "robotlar" haline getirmeye giden yolda, giderek cansıkıcı hale gelen takıntılı ve kıt vizyonlu bir kişilik.
ReplyDeleteGeleceğe ışık tutabilecek ilginç bir makale ve
Sobat meta
ReplyDeleteMetamate has a controversial connotation on the Cape Flats.
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This is how all “cool kids clubs” crumble…a drawn out fart, in which everyone naturally rides the wind out of the bag they were all in. Same as it ever was. ��
ReplyDelete"What's your occupation?"
ReplyDelete"I am a metamate" 🤡🤡🤡
And they even changed the jargon "ship, shipmate, self" to "meta, metamate, me", to make the situation even more stupid.
DeleteChanging a jargon to put the "ship" (company) above its well-being is the purest cream of capitalism.