> Still, I don’t think the “metaverse” or non fungible tokens will have any long term relevance simply because nobody was asking for this crap to begin with.

I listened to the podcast between Lex Friedman and Mark Zuckerberg the other day and I remember Mark describing the metaverse and one comment got me, he said how you would no longer have to go to a concert or gathering to be there, you and all your friends could join up and go see it in the metaverse.

And I thought to myself "Mark, this is not why people go to concerts". Yes people go to concerts to hear the music, but that's only part of the draw. It's the vibration in the floor, the screaming fans, the whole environment that makes you want to go, not just the music.

I think that Facebook is making a grand miscalculation with the metaverse. They assume people will "Do X in the metaverse" versus "Doing X in real life", missing the point that people don't necessarily go do X for X itself, they do it for all the other small reasons including X.