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29 Oct 2021, 10:44 am

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-facebook-changes-its-company-name/ar-AAQ3IlS?ocid=uxbndlbing

What exactly does this mean for FB?


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29 Oct 2021, 12:52 pm

I re-read the article and realized it's just a corporate name change, not a website name change.


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29 Oct 2021, 1:11 pm

It is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to keep the ship from sinking after the iceberg was struck.



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29 Oct 2021, 5:56 pm

It's just like Google changing their parent company name to Alphabet a few years ago, they want to emphasize that they do more than one thing, search in the case of Google, and social networking in the case of Facebook.


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30 Oct 2021, 4:08 am

Dont know if Facebook is sinking. But it has suddenly earned a bad reputation.

So its not like renaming the Titanic.

Its more like if Blackbeard renamed the "Queens Anne Revenge" to something else so folks would forget that it was a pirate ship. .

No no no.

Its like if Black Beard kept the name of his pirate ship, but created an over riding corporate entity that OWNED his ship.

So it would still be "the Queen Anne's Revenge", but it would owned by something with a name like "the Carnival Cruise Line". :lol:



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31 Oct 2021, 1:54 pm

Quote:
Facebook name change an attempt to ‘direct attention away’ from investigations
22 hours ago


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Mark Zuckerberg changing Facebook’s name to ‘Meta’ is an attempt to direct attention away from all the investigations the company has had into its operations this last year, according to Cypress College’s Professor Peter Matthews.

“It was one of the worst years for Facebook as far as PR goes,” Prof Matthews told Sky News Australia.

“And he’s now trying to come up with something called a Metauniverse, the Metaverse.”

The ‘metaverse’ is a shared 3D virtual space whereby, according to Mr Zuckerberg, users will be able to “teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents’ living room to catch up”, he wrote in a letter announcing Facebook’s rebranding to Meta.

“I’m not even sure what’s that all about other than distract people from the real issues of the day,” Prof Matthews said.

“We should be focusing on the real world and what’s going on right now, as challenging enough to be lost in some metaverse.”


https://www.skynews.com.au/business/med ... erallPos=9



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