Reminds me of when Bill Gates wrote a book on the "Information Superhighway" (envisioned to be a MS-controlled walled garden like AOL) and then put out a revised edition a year later that replaced the term with "Internet". They still had their walled garden with Windows + IE for several years though.
The message is loud and clear "As I’ve talked about efficiency this year, I’ve said that part of our work will involve removing jobs". & no surprise, "future" has only mentioned 4 times
Mr Zuckerberg, what is the future of social connection?
And it was mentioned only as one item among others: “We do this with AI to help you creatively express yourself and discover new content, with the metaverse to deliver a realistic sense of presence, with new media formats to …” and “Our leading work building the metaverse and shaping the next generation of computing platforms ….”
Yeah, I noticed this. I wonder if it's next on the chopping block.
Thing is, I don't think that people trust FB/"meta" with the concept. Most of the feedback I've heard from people IRL has been to the effect of, "it could be cool, but not if Facebook is behind it."