"The concept [Meta] originates from Snow Crash, a dystopian novel from the 1990s in which people flee the crumbling real world to be fully immersed in a virtual one"
Facebook is creating a virtual world to allow us to escape the deteriorating state of this one.
Metaphysics is an old kind of philosophical "pondering" on ones own existence and reality.. ("why are we here?" etc).
Also there is an art period called metaphysical art or metaphysical painting which was a movement in the early 1910s.
Facebook is creating a virtual world to allow us to escape the deteriorating state of this one.