Facebook Meta Isn’t New. The Future Started in 2003

Phaylen Fairchild
12 min readOct 29, 2021

“Imagine a world where you can be anything you want to be.” I already did 18 years ago.

Mark Zuckerburg announced that Facebook, the social media platform the has shaped our culture, was rebranding and transitioning to a virtual world called “The Metaverse… or Meta.

Meta offers some pretty amazing concepts such as Avatar creation, shared virtual spaces, immersive environments and user generated content that will take users far beyond the third person experience of simple status box. Facebook Meta will feature teleportation to other users rooms and customized experiences. From inside, you’re no longer an idle profile picture, but a 3-D representative of yourself. Within this world exists a new social media platform called “Horizon.” It promises detailed and expansive worlds with infinite possibilities and will essentially redefine the way we communicate, collaborate and educate.

Within the Virtual world, you can attend concerts or watch a movie with friends. You will be able to go to parties with thousands of other people around the world or…

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Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com