Facebook’s new name…guesses?

[Mik]

@89th said in Facebook’s new name…guesses?:

I believe in the next few days Facebook will announce a new name, any guesses?

I’m guessing it will be similar to where Google created a parent company called Alphabet, but the Google product remained.

Agreed. It will be a holding company and is designed to take news articles off the products.

[Copper]

@89th said in Facebook’s new name…guesses?:

Facebook will announce a new name

Progressive Democrats of America

[kluurs]

Facy McBookface article

[Doctor Phibes]

TRUTH.

Maybe somebody forgot to reserve a domain name?

[George K]

https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-new-name-is-meta-1847957440

[Mik]

Should have been The Matrix. That's rather what he's building.

[89th]

Meta was so obvious it was like a placeholder for what a real, creative name could've been. Oh well. I guess it's all about me(ta).

[jon-nyc]

I wonder if it will be like Alphabet. A name not used outside of corporate headquarters and securities firms.

[89th]

@jon-nyc Probably exactly like that. It's also not the most friendly word to use in a sentence. "Hey, have you checked meta lately?"

[xenon]

@jon-nyc said in Facebook’s new name…guesses?:

I wonder if it will be like Alphabet. A name not used outside of corporate headquarters and securities firms.

Yes.. also I think some segment of employees would like to say "I work for Meta" instead of having to say they work for Facebook.

[jon-nyc]

@89th said in Facebook’s new name…guesses?:

@jon-nyc Probably exactly like that. It's also not the most friendly word to use in a sentence. "Hey, have you checked meta lately?"

I assume they aren’t changing the name of the Facebook product, just the company, which has several properties as you know.

[Horace]

Who the heck is that guy, anyway? What insights into the human condition has Mark Zuckerberg ever had, other than to make his company bigger? Has he ever gone public with a thought that matters, other than to what makes his company bigger?

[George K]

I first encountered my girlfriend on the old Facebook.

I'd never Meta before.

[jon-nyc]

[Aqua Letifer]

Can we just cut the shit already? Is Facebook building Wintermute, or Neuromancer? That's all the hell I want to know.

[Doctor Phibes]

@horace said in Facebook’s new name…guesses?:

Who the heck is that guy, anyway? What insights into the human condition has Mark Zuckerberg ever had, other than to make his company bigger? Has he ever gone public with a thought that matters, other than to what makes his company bigger?

So you're complaining that he restricts himself to talking about stuff that he actually knows about?

The last bloody thing I need is yet another amateur philosopher or political "commentator" spouting on. We're freaking inundated with those a-holes.

[George K]

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[89th]

@george-k Gotta smoke those meats.

Hey.. meat is an anagram for meta!

[George K]

Seen on Twitter:

I preferred “meta” when it was attached to “mucil.”

[Catseye3]

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Mark Zuckerberg Changes Name to Mother Teresa
“The name ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ did not accurately describe my function: to be a force for good, spreading love and kindness throughout the metaverse,” Mother Teresa said.