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Facebook Has Changed Its Names And People Are Not Convinced

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<strong>Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook's new name, Meta, during a virtual event.</strong>


Facebook has revealed a new company name and brand – but the reaction has largely been to ridicule the move.

Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future – what the CEO and founder calls the “metaverse”.

But the decision also comes amid a string of controversies that have followed the company’s various ventures, particularly the main Facebook platform, Instagram and WhatsApp.

While the wider company name is being rebranded to Meta, the core Facebook service will remain unchanged.

This is similar to how Google created a new parent company name, Alphabet, in 2015 to represent its shift beyond simply being a search engine.

Zuckerberg said the current brand is “so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future”.

But as journalists pointed out, the rebrand makes little difference.​


#BREAK Facebook's new company name is Meta

It still has all the same problems it had this morning. pic.twitter.com/3AROaibCeU

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 28, 2021

Big move from Facebook like that time Google changed its name to that thing I had to stop and remember just now

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 28, 2021

A reminder to other journalists: you don’t have to do this. You can, and should, continue to serve your readers by calling Facebook Facebook

— alex hern (@alexhern) October 28, 2021

…a new journalism consortium thats just an agreement to continue calling the company Facebook.

— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) October 28, 2021

It’s not the the first name change​





2005: 2021:
TheFacebook Facebook
becomes becomes
Facebook. Meta. pic.twitter.com/oeUjiFe8PW

— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) October 28, 2021

"Drop the 'Facebook.' Just Meta, it's cleaner." pic.twitter.com/tQWLvOWrBk

— The Shadow Jedi (@Captain63857795) October 28, 2021

There were the inevitable puns​


There it is. It’s official. Facebook has a new name.

Introducing…

MetaBollocks pic.twitter.com/SRDMij7jI7

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) October 28, 2021

meta luck next time

— Hayley Miller (@hayleymiller01) October 28, 2021

Meta on a Thursday*.

*Sorry. pic.twitter.com/Vuf7bhEEJm

— Andrew Malpertuis ? (@Andr6wMale) October 28, 2021

this all happened because zuckerberg never meta girl until college

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) October 28, 2021

No Meta what you call Facebook it sucks

— amil (@amil) October 28, 2021

It was actually that rare thing – a good day to be on social media.​


Gonna take awhile to get used to saying “He was radicalized in a META group”

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 28, 2021

“The name of the company is Meta. It's a cutting edge high-tech Web 3.0 company with no data and consumer exploitation issues whatsoever currently trading at a deep discount to fair value” pic.twitter.com/4cEvkgzyCl

— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. ? (@ParikPatelCFA) October 28, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg when someone calls his site Facebook instead of Meta: pic.twitter.com/nlJYAJFqar

— In My Mind (@MeAloneInMyMind) October 28, 2021

“Our new name is Meta” pic.twitter.com/laGWvJ7Vs1

— Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) October 28, 2021

Genuinely weird logo to choose #metapic.twitter.com/fcTfqkUl8z

— Danny Wallace (@dannywallace) October 28, 2021

The team behind the Facebook's name change to Meta pic.twitter.com/AWY2lrczsg

— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) October 28, 2021

And then came the brands​





Changing name to Meat

— Meat (@Wendys) October 28, 2021

This is awkward- we’re going w/ MEATA

— Slim Jim ? (@SlimJim) October 28, 2021

Into the Meataverse

— Meat (@Wendys) October 28, 2021

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