Yes, it’s cool. You can do a meeting in a virtual world wearing a headset while enjoying a dazzling view of the online Meta world. At least, that’s what Facebook or Meta is trying to promote. However, behind Silicon Valley’s disruptive technology; comes great harm to this world’s population (probably aliens are affected too by this stupidity).

One of the major harms of social media is how it’s designed. The social media platform hires “social engineers” who are responsible for making us as addicted as possible. From dopamine to getting approval through likes and comments, Facebook’s algorithms are designed to make us crave more.

Why Meta?

Well, Mark Zuckerberg is desperate. A few weeks after Frances Haugen – former Facebook employee turned whistleblower – shared internal reports about shameful Facebook actions; Zuckerberg suddenly pulled out a plan B. Instead of addressing the problems and the harm that the social media giant is doing to people; Zuckerberg is planning to launch an even more harmful technology.

It’s a no-brainer that social media is tearing apart the social fabric. We aren’t connected, in fact, we are disconnected from the real world, and stuck in the social media feed; fighting to get that one additional dopamine dose from likes and comments.  Now imagine a social virtual world where you can do meetings, meet friends (or not) and escape from the reality … instead of facing it. According to Zuckerberg, it will be "an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content — you are in it."

It seems apparent that Facebook normalized “technology slavery” as I like to put it. People don’t care anymore about whether the people behind Facebook or Meta try to make them addicted. Everyone seems to be happy about the situation – as long as they are getting likes and comments from people.

Metaverse as I see it will be a new drug. It will be an even more harmful technology that is useless. What we actually need is to be connected again; to have social media platforms that allow us to connect, but not to be addicted.

We don’t need more social engineers to manipulate our behaviors and those of our children. And again, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care. I mean if he did, then we wouldn’t have had Frances Haugen share internal reports about his company.