This has been true since the days of timesharing and BBS culture in the 70's / 80's and people will always have a natural affinity for that. If Meta abdicates that space, other things would fill its place. But I don't think we can go back to the era of thriving subcultures, the charm of novel connection, that we had in the 90's, so much has changed since then.
If aliens have the same evolution, Facebook would have just be called something else.
This his idiotic plan to pivot fb into the future because after WhatsApp and Instagram suddenly TikTok came.
And if you believe in a future with VR and in the one platform paradigm than this investment is worth a lot but it's in my opinion a very big gamble while suck believe in it's being a smaller gamble.
/shrug imagine suck actually believing in something worthwhile he actually could have used this by making a real working social media platform or start doing something for people like planting trees...