Meta is Facebook's new company name
Facebook will rebrand itself as Meta, as announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg during today's Facebook Connect presentation.
Near the end of today’s Facebook Connect 2021 presentation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be going by a new name, Meta. The company says the change is to represent the goals and aspirations of the company.
“We are a company that builds technology to connect,” Zuckerberg said. “Together, we can finally put people at the center of our technology. And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy - to reflect who we are and what we hope to build.”
Zuckerberg says that the Facebook name served the company well in its early days, but fails to cover all the various markets and technologies the company is working with. “Right now, our brand is so tightly linked to one product,” the Facebook CEO explained. “But over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company.”
We first reported on rumors that Facebook would be changing its name last week. While Zuckerberg emphatically contends that the name change is in service of its expansion into an online metaverse, rebranding also serves to distance the social media giant from years of bad press.
In recent weeks, Zuckerberg and Facebook have come under fire as former employee Frances Haugen brought private company practices to light. On Monday, a collection of internal company documents, sourced by Haugen, were spread amongst news organizations. These documents were collectively dubbed the Facebook Papers. The documents corroborate claims that Facebook knew it was actively spreading misinformation and hate speech through its platforms.
For more news and developments out of today’s Facebook Connect 2021 presentation, keep checking in with us here at Shacknews.
-
Shacknews
replyChris Jarrard posted a new article, Meta is Facebook's new company name
-
That’s so…meta stupid
-
Did they address why? They wanted to escape their toxic past and start a brand new toxic company?
-
-
Should have gone with Omni
-
[deleted]
-
Godawful name
-
FaceFart and FacePalm would be better
-
-
Fuck Meta
-
-
Looks like the next iteration of Visual Studio Code logo.
-
-
Must be big fans of Ron Artest.
-
Second Life 2 hype https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1453775255349207057?s=20
-
Delete Meta, Hit the Lawyer, hire a gym.
-
The website is still called Facebook.
Literally nothing has changed. Absolutely nothing.-
-
CNBC is treating it like it's part of their approach on getting people to use their virtual hardware.
Thing is, nobody wants to read text inside of some VR gear. It's hard to read and monitor is too close to the eyes for that sort of thing.
-
-
-
-
-
And Meta World Peace just changed his name back to Ron Artest in protest.
-
Does this also now mean that they're going to litigate anyone that uses meta in a product or company name?
-
[deleted]
-
MAANG just doesn't have the same ring to it.
-
https://twitter.com/wendys/status/1453805031463993346?s=21
Sir, this is a meat. -
-
MetaShugaShack
-
Metamucil News
-
-
I eat fiber gummies now. Gotta … Ensure™️ smooth operation.
-
-
-
-
Metamucil.
-
A couple weeks ago, weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz sent an email to Ben Zimmer, a language columnist at the Boston Globe.
"Ben," he wrote, "Every 20-something on my staff uses the word 'meta' all the time — as in 'That's so meta.' Did I miss something?"
Zimmer responded with a 400-word mini-essay affirming that, yes, "meta" has indeed been working its way to more popular usage over the last decade or so.
"Everything in the culture, it seems, can instantly become self-referential, self-conscious, and self-parodying, increasingly driven by the frenzied feedback loop of social networking and electronic communication," Zimmer wrote. "Your young staffers take all of this for granted." -
