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Report: Facebook to Change Its Name Next Week to Better Reflect Company's 'Metaverse'
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Nice. Just renaming the same old crap. Companies love to do this.
Or the rebrand that started it all, after an unfortunate incident in Bhopal, Union Carbide —> First Brands.
They do know that if they change their name people will still hate that company right?
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Oh, right. It's a video game, except boring.
They are changing the name because the name Facebook is already associated with espionage, data leakage, illicit surveillance, abuse of power, political interventions, arbitrary censorship, massive spam, fake accounts, bots, fake news, fines from many government agencies worldwide, and last but not least, the psychopath face of Zukerberg. There are porn sites with better reputation that Facebook. And no, Facebook is not metaverse, it is stupid website where people upload personal stuff for other to see. It was trending 10 years ago, but not so much anymore. I dont know why it still exist. In my circle, people barely used it, except for group chats and selling fake products through the marketplace.
...MySpace?
When you need credibility, maybe Tom will be your friend. Haha.
When you need credibility, maybe Tom will be your friend. Haha.
They should have done this a long time ago…. always thought it was awkward seeing Facebook branding on Occulus. Should probably use a letter that starts with A… I think psychology, linguistics etc says Latin root words sound better to most people compared to many German root words in English. Should maybe name it Astral or Astralis.
There's anther thread concerning the $20 Apple polishing cloth. This thread is about Facebook.
Seems legit. Suggesting "Octopus". Then Octopus owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus... ;-)
I have it on good authority that they are changing the name to Zubar. (Internally, it stands for Zucked Up Beyond All Recognition, or so my source tells me.) It, and their other social media platforms, will be overseen by the new parent organisation, the Ministry of Truth.
Stop using facebook to stop this man’s reign of terror!
Not likely, $50.5M is truly a rounding error for FB.Give them a diversion from their 50.5 million pound fine in the UK re Giphy.
Facebook fined £50.5m for breaching order in Giphy takeover investigation
CMA says firm ‘deliberately’ refused to supply information showing it had complied with order to separate businesseswww.theguardian.com
