People hate zuckerberg and facebook.
Then again, instagram is facebook and so is whatsapp and those apps are widly popular. Basically completely ubiquitous these days.
So will that happen with meta? I've never used a VR chat room as I'm not a deranged faggot. Do they have appeal to zoomers and younger?
Meta itself is a direct copy of https://decentraland.org/. I'm not sure how popular that is though but I remember seeing second life and thinking "who the fuck would even consider wasting their time with this" and then seeing how popular it was. Roblox is another virtual social network world that is wildly popular too. And I can see how many people these days would want to escape into a virtual world.
Honestly, just a matter of time until they find the correct way to market this to people, tell them why they "need" it, and then the people will blindly buy into, or else be peer-pressured into.
However, there's one big thing they would need to fix first. It has to be so easy to use a literal dumbass can use it. Right now, VR is still pretty finicky, it requires quite a lot of space and some setup, and even ingame, you need to actually move your arm around to do stuff, while normally it would just be a quick button press. Remember the Kinect? This shit failed simply because raising your arm for 3 seconds every time you need to validate an action is simply boring and tiring, and humans are just very lazy. It's just a matter of time until we find the correct way to do it though.
VR, with a headset covering your entire head and eyes, is the perfect innocent tool to do very nasty stuff like mind reading and eye tracking (for more ads and such). I have no doubt than in maybe 10-20 years, we will be able to read someone's mind with just a headset that you put on your head because you want to interact with your family. There's no way FB or others are going to miss such an opportunity. And companies are getting exceptionally good at selling product and make people think they need said product.