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The Facebook Company Is Now Meta | Meta

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta, a new company brand for Facebook apps and technologies.

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Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can’t be together — and do things together you couldn’t do in the physical world. It’s the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it’s ushering in a new chapter for our company. Mark shared more about this vision in a founder’s letter.

 

[NickFire]

Are they gonna rebrand the CEO position to Master of the Metaverse next?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

 

[T8SC]

MetaGAF assemble!

nush S Star-Lord Maiden Voyage haxan7 Peggies Ionian Tschumi SoggyBiscuit @Thaedolus Sidney Prescott

 

[CrimsonSquall]

Occulus will make the metaverse a reality

 

[DragoonKain]

Beta males in the meta verse

 

[zeorhymer]

Great. Alphabet 2.0.

 

[Peggies]

MetaGAF assemble!

nush S Star-Lord Maiden Voyage haxan7 Peggies Ionian Tschumi SoggyBiscuit @Thaedolus Sidney Prescott

 

[pauljeremiah]

what a shit name.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Can we sue?

 

[TransTrender]

Here come the FB lawyers suing everyone and anything with 'meta' in the name

 

[Star-Lord]

MetaGAF assemble!

nush S Star-Lord Maiden Voyage haxan7 Peggies Ionian Tschumi SoggyBiscuit @Thaedolus Sidney Prescott

I’ve got my lawyers on the phone. Not the one who represented Andrew Garfield though, he was shit.

 

[T8SC]

Can we sue?

 

[Fbh]

To avoid lawsuits in the future I think we should start calling the generally agreed upon strategy by the community in a game "The Facebook"

 

[haxan7]

ok which one of you is Zuck

 

[DeepEnigma]

This whole ARG around this social media platform the past decade has been wild.

 

[Pagusas]

The Human race destroyed by Meta Robots does sound alot better than Facebook Robots. Good call Marketing Team, way to be forward thinking!

 

[Star-Lord]

ok which one of you is Zuck

With all his insider knowledge on everyone, I’m gonna say nush is Zuckerberg.

 

[dem]

Good name.

Buying more $FB

 

[SoggyBiscuit]

MetaGAF assemble!

nush S Star-Lord Maiden Voyage haxan7 Peggies Ionian Tschumi SoggyBiscuit @Thaedolus Sidney Prescott

MetaGAF's shtoile is completely unblockable.

 

[DKehoe]

 

[Cre8]

Meta World Peace

 

[DeepEnigma]

Should have changed it to OnlyBans

*for select demographics

 

[chromhound]

i hope they get 'meta' to the ground

 

[dr_octagon]

 

[Sidney Prescott]

MetaGAF assemble!

nush S Star-Lord Maiden Voyage haxan7 Peggies Ionian Tschumi SoggyBiscuit @Thaedolus Sidney Prescott

 

[dorkimoe]

For anyone who thinks changing the name wont change the stigma around it, it absolutely does. Most people cant figure out that xfinity is comcast. People are stupid.

 

[Draugoth]

You can make some Persona jokes with this

 

[mortal]

That name makes them sound even more intrusive. Also not a fan of that logo design.

 

[Sabotage]

We'll need metamemes to combat this

 

[Xenon]

So apparently the company was renamed by somebody who just finished 6 energy drinks.

 

[eddie4]

yay....

 

[nush]

With all his insider knowledge on everyone, I’m gonna say nush is Zuckerberg.

I sold you fuckers out for a few billy, now I'm going to sleep. Evilore and the mods will answer your questions but I can assure you meta will make no changes.

 

[Ionian]

Considering the fact that 'Meta' is on the way out, extra funny.

 

[Wildebeest]

Snow Crash wasn't even that good tho'.

 

[dr_octagon]

Cambridge Met-Analytica amirite?

Fuck you Zuck

 

[Star-Lord]

I sold you fuckers out for a few billy, now I'm going to sleep. Evilore and the mods will answer your questions but I can assure you meta will make no changes.

MOBA? META? Corporate sellouts?

It all makes sense.

nush is Cerium is Zuckerberg.

 

[Fake]

Zuckerberg just confirmed he post on metaGAF.

 

[TTOOLL]

This shit will be dead in 10 years, I hope.

 

[IDKFA]

I really can't wrap my head around the metaverse. It sounds like the Oasis from Ready Player One, which would be pretty wild, but also It means people will spend even more time in a virtual world than the real one.

 

[IDKFA]

Take away the hair and age him up a bit, and he actually does look like Murphy from RoboCop.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Snow Crash wasn't even that good tho'.

Blasphemer

 

[newtypepilot]

just another stunt to appear more human

 

[ZehDon]

 

[dr_octagon]

This shit will be dead in 10 years, I hope.

One lives in hope.

People could kill it overnight but nobody cares about privacy, data being harvested for ads, algorithms to anger, censorship and CEO wanting to control the world.

Even if competitors paid people to use their platform, the pull of Facebook and its product is too great.

Nothing short of a failure of infrastructure, public relations diaster and a mass exodus is stopping this train on fire.

 

[Alebrije]

Facebook is now Meta...

 

[Mobilemofo]

stupid as fuck. what a bag of pricks..

 

[MayauMiao]

I will tell anyone that barely use facebook that the platform is dead and just stick to Telegram/Signal for private social sharing platform.

 

[Ionian]

Watch the sh

stupid as fuck. what a bag of pricks..

Watch the share price drop, nobody cares about it. Doesn't matter who they have acquired.

Yahoo did it and failed, Google did it and failed.

Although Yahoo was a spectacular failure, Google at least righted the ship whilst shutting down services to its users.

 

[UnNamed]

I don't understand, it's something like Alphabet with Google or Facebook will really change name?