Through an Oculus, Clearly: Stop Freaking Out About Facebook

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Through an Oculus, Clearly: Stop Freaking Out About Facebook
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By **w, we k**w that the reaction to a major Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) acquisition among the chattering tech**rati follows a pretty simple script. It happened with Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in 2012, it happened again last month with WhatsApp (http://mashable.com/category/whatsapp/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and it happened yet again Tuesday with the $2 billion deal for the virtual reality gurus at Oculus VR (http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/facebook-acquires-oculus-vr-for-2-billion/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

First comes the stage where we all have a good laugh. Facebook bought what **w? For how much? **. Seriously? What are they smoking in Menlo Park? The memes and jokes fly thick and fast. We comb our cultural history for anything that matches the pattern of an accurate predictionThe Oatmeal called it (https://twitter.com/FraserAust/status/448617539254239232)The Simpsons called it (http://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/00313488-b49b-11e3-b683-12313b027a03-large.jpeg) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/26/oculus-rift-facebook-freakout/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Dev Design (http://mashable.com/dev-design/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Gadgets (http://mashable.com/gadgets/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/ZFSRDOcuXg8