You know how media always portrays a future internet as some bafflingly unusable VR thing that's just all the inconvenience of a shopping mall combined with the security nightmare of internet-of-things bullshit, and how everyone who knows anything about computers is like "lol how fucking stupid, imagine someone being so fucking stupid that they'd make something this terrible for literally no reason"?

Remember Second Life, the weird parasocial quasi-MMO thing with digital real estate scarcity and other weird scams?

Facebook is trying to do the latter again, but turn it into the former this time around.