"Metaverse" is only a dumb term if you don't know what it means/it doesn't have meaning to you. Like any word.<br>The moment you put some meaning to a word, the word becomes short-hand for that meaning/set of ideas, and becomes useful - which is the point of words.<br><br>And the fact that it's some kind of running joke to hate on it means that people don't understand 1. How words work, and 2. How to interpret the context of other people's words and ideas. Which is just poor communication skill, and has nothing to do with any particular word.<br><br>---------------------<br><br>I think it's a good idea that they're holding companies accountable for things like addiction. In the same way that companies can be held reliable if their physical systems and tools are needlessly dangerous/without systems and support to prevent injury and death, I think it's great that we're considering mental and spiritual/social health as on-par with physical. That's just really cool to see it starting to be a thing, and I'm all for a future where a company with as much resources as social media platforms are required to see what the long-term effects of their products are, and make sure those effects are either unharmful, or that there are proceedures and processes in place to handle/prevent issues, etc. The future is just that much brighter for this foresight &lt;whoever&gt; is putting into this.<br><br>(And I probably sound excited about all of this because I sat for a moment and thought "why are they doing this?", and then it hit me, and I never really thought about before.)