what does it mean to be “meta” about something?

Question

The title. I never understood that expression… can someone help?

Edit: auto correct on ‘someone’

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Answer 1

I want to add something else to the conversation:

**Meta-data**

If you are chatting with some one on imessages or whatsapp or RCS

Then the message is private to you and your friend.

The metadata for that conversation is your name, your phone number, your possible location , your id on apple/facebook/google, the date-time of conversation, possibly the coarse location of you and the coarse location of your friend.

But the meta-data isn’t.