In 2013, Meta Platforms Inc. was Facebook, and the company was excitedly launching commercials for Facebook Home, an Android interface that put Facebook content front and center on your phone. But today, who sees Facebook as a wish-granting machine rather than a platform designed to make the company money by extracting personal information and serving us targeted ads? In a supposedly heartwarming finale, someone places a VR headset on our robo-dog and it’s instantly transported to Meta’s social VR platform, Horizon Worlds.