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Meta wants to broaden Horizon’s horizon

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Targeting Kids Is a Bizarre Move

It seems like a bizarre move to focus on kids, which is arguably one of the more controversial demographics and technology. I think targeting kids makes sense because if you get kids to use your product, that's why all of old spices commercials are stupid and goofy or whatever. But it feels like Zuck just wants to check every single box he possibly can to see if they can generate any traffic from that audience. It just feels like a distraction from their mission. They should continue building out WhatsApp and focusing more on kind of being the utility company of the internet and social media rather than building these weird kind of one-off projects on horizon worlds.

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