---
title: "Facebook Employees Say Mark Zuckerberg Is Weirdly Obsessed With the Metaverse"
description: "A new report states Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with devloping Facebook's metaverse products and contents and is sowing internal chaos."
date: "2022-04-22"
modified: "2022-04-22"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-obsessed-metaverse"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
  - "Metaverse"
  - "Virtual Reality"
tags:
  - "facebook"
  - "mark zuckerberg"
  - "Meta"
  - "the digest"
---

# Facebook Employees Say Mark Zuckerberg Is Weirdly Obsessed With the Metaverse

![A new report states Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with devloping Facebook's metaverse products and contents and is sowing internal chaos.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-obsessed-metaverse.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty / Futurism \</em\>*

## Ready or Not

The metaverse is looking less and less exciting all the time with [brands hosting bizarre events nobody wants to attend](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/heineken-metaverse-beer>), but the slew of companies bringing VR realities to life certainly aren't failing for a lack of trying. In fact, employees at Facebook say founder and company head Mark Zuckerberg obsessed.

"\[It's\] the only thing Mark wants to talk about," an anonymous former director-level employee [told *Business Insider* in a new report](<https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-obsession-driving-some-employees-nuts-2022-4>) published today.

According to the report, Zuckerberg is focused solely on metaverse content creation but says the project will take a decade or more to complete, likely requiring improvements to [the Oculus Quest 2](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/vr-headset-hospital>), also called Meta Quest 2 since [Facebook purchased Oculus and later changed its name](<https://futurism.com/facebook-changes-name-meta>). Despite the project's scope, Zuckerberg isn't giving employees a clear strategy, but he still wants to inform every department company-wide about the pivot to focusing on [the metaverse.](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/startup-inflict-pain-metaverse>)

The result is internal chaos, *BI* reports.

## Good, Better, Best

It's not a given Zuckerberg's laser focus will pay off. Facebook's habit of [acquiring tech and apps it envies then reducing their popularity](<https://www.theverge.com/22167632/instagram-2020-changes-facebook-integration>) because of design and algorithm choices is pretty solid, so it would be unfortunate if Zuckerberg made the metaverse clunky and boring.

Meta's plan to help [advertisers on the platform make bank](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-ar-ads>) could ruin the potential fun for everyone by executing a good idea badly.

**More on dystopian futures:** [*Facebook Exec Defends Verifying Fake CGI People on Instagram*](<https://futurism.com/fake-cgi-people-instagram>)