The moment you see those Meta Ray-Bans, you know what’s coming. No, not a cool AR overlay. A recording. Because this is what Facebook does: it turns everything into a data point, starting with your face.
Facebook wasn’t just born; it was hatched in creepiness. And its new glasses? Just the latest egg hatching.
What You Need to Know
- Facebook started as Facemash—a “hot-or-not” for rating women. Yeah, the platform that now owns your soul began by scraping women’s photos without permission. It was shut down by Harvard, then pivoted to Facebook. The pattern? Take something skeevy, wrap it in tech, and call it innovation. Don’t fall for it.
Zuckerberg isn’t a genius—he’s lucky. He spent $80 billion on the Metaverse, which they just killed. That’s not brilliance; that’s throwing money at a vision no one wanted. Most tech bros are overrated coders, not titans. You’re not stupid enough to believe the hype.
Facebook’s target audience was always creepy men. Shocking, right? The fact that society didn’t burn it down years ago says more about us than it does about them. Some of us did leave, but most of you stayed for “cat videos” while they built a surveillance state.
Yelp had a shot to kill Facebook—and blew it. Remember when Yelp went “app-only” and alienated half its users? They could’ve dominated reviews and check-ins, but they were too busy being PayPal dweebs to see the opportunity. Now Facebook owns everything from your dinner plans to your grandma’s birthday party. Thanks, Yelp.
Facebook buys or copies competitors. Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads—they either acquire the competition or clone it. And they’re better at it than Google. If you think this is new, you’re new.
Old people and local governments keep Facebook alive. They refuse to learn new tools, so they stick with what they know. Your neighborhood association? Still using Facebook. The city’s job postings? Only on Facebook. You deleted your account, but you still need it to see the world. That’s the trap.
Those glasses are for creeps—period. Amazon sells stickers to hide the recording light. People are filling the LED with resin to record secretly. And don’t pretend you didn’t see this coming. The original Facebook was a “hot-or-not” for women; now it’s a “record-or-not” for everyone.
The non-creepy uses are tiny. Accessibility features? Great. But the majority of users are YouTubers rage-baiting, guys flirting for content, and creeps recording everything. The glasses might help blind people navigate, but they’ll never escape the stalker association.
Society’s response: Accept being recorded everywhere. Sooner or later, the law will have to catch up—or we’ll live in a world where cameras are always watching. And you’ll have no one to blame but yourself for normalizing this.
Women always pay the price. Every new surveillance tech? It’s marketed as “cool” or “useful,” but women know it’s another way to be watched. The glasses, the phones, the cameras—always targeting women. Always.
Do This
Stop pretending this is about “innovation.” It’s about control. Facebook was born creepy, and it’s dying creepy. The glasses? Just the final nail in the coffin of privacy. The only question left is: Will you keep looking through the lens, or will you finally look away?