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Mind Doodles

• Going viral is now just another inconvenience in life, like when your apartment floods or your power goes out. You may have "caused" it by posting/not sealing your door or blowing a fuse, but it's mostly out of your control.

• As the moral panic around how Zoomers work/communicate continues, we've lost an important thread: their digital lives are largely happening behind closed digital doors. Companies may still own all of their data, but it's not necessarily public to everyone on the platform. This has largely shaped how Snapchat has evolved: users are much more interested in one on one communication and filters instead of a feed that they have no agency over.

• Is a wiki that different from a metaverse? What about co-op text based games? What if you have your own world? I think of Obsidian as my own little internet grove.

• iCloud is already Apple's social network. They might not be able to cultivate social media, but the blue bubble holding text still subtly indicates you're in th

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Metaverses Mark Zuckerberg Conveniently Ignores in Presentations

• The Sims 4 Available Now - An Official EA Site
• Animal Crossing series – Official Site
• Pikmin Bloom - Make Every Step Count!
• Second Life
• VRChat
• Fortnite | Free-to-Play Cross-Platform Game - Fortnite
• Roblox
• Rec Room

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Your Metaverse Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad V.2

First of all, thank you for reading. There's so much word vomit about AR and VR that I'm surprised you can handle any more. I really appreciate it. I hate talking about what so many people think is just a buzzword, but here we are.

I don't think I have anything new to say about the tech's newest craze, "the metaverse." That's the problem. If you ask someone "what is the metaverse?" it's not that they wouldn't be able to tell you; they wouldn't know which one you're talking about. I mean that literally. At Thanksgiving, ask your weird Uncle what he thinks about the metaverse. He'll probably mention something about virtual reality or Facebook before spouting off something homophobic.

There's World of Warcraft, Roblox, Rec Room, Minecraft, Animal Crossing, and I'd argue, even Zoom.

Despite not having any new hot takes, I can't stop thinking about our new mixed realities. What I hope, literally pray for, is that the metaverse never becomes one place. I wa