"Meta" means "dead" in Hebrew. He didn't steal, in this case, shit. He's just rubbing our noses in it. More specifically, it means to obtain the highest reaches of "heaven." Which if you know anything about their inversion tactics (new band name, called it): they think this company will finally bring hell on earth. Do with that information what you will.
It also was literally the big otherworld in Persona 5 just a few years before Zuck started using it. Which is equally likely to be the kind of low effort, trend chasing shit he would go with.
People should still call it facebook before it stole the word meta.
"Meta" means "dead" in Hebrew. He didn't steal, in this case, shit. He's just rubbing our noses in it. More specifically, it means to obtain the highest reaches of "heaven." Which if you know anything about their inversion tactics (new band name, called it): they think this company will finally bring hell on earth. Do with that information what you will.
Considering the meta verse was something from Second Life years ago, yes Facebook did steal it.
The term metaverse goes back even farther to Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash. That didn't start with Second Life.
It wasn't a coincidence, both Facebook and Linden Labs founders have read that book.
It also was literally the big otherworld in Persona 5 just a few years before Zuck started using it. Which is equally likely to be the kind of low effort, trend chasing shit he would go with.