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Johnson 10:27 Thu Oct 28
Facebook changing their name to Meta

Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand.
The company said it would better "encompass" what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas like virtual reality (VR).
The change does not apply to its individual platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, only the parent company that owns them.
The move follows a series of negative stories about Facebook, based on documents leaked by an ex-employee.
Frances Haugen has accused the company of putting "profits over safety".
In 2015, Google restructured its company calling its parent firm Alphabet, however, the name has not caught on.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the new name as he unveiled plans to build a "metaverse" - an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets.
He said the existing brand could not "possibly represent everything that we're doing today, let alone in the future", and needed to change.
What is a metaverse?
"Over time, I hope that we are seen as a metaverse company and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we're building towards," he told a virtual conference.
"We're now looking at and reporting on our business as two different segments, one for our family of apps, and one for our work on future platforms.
"And as part of this, it is time for us to adopt a new company brand to encompass everything that we do, to reflect who we are and what we hope to build."
The company also unveiled a new sign at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Thursday, replacing its thumbs-up "Like" logo with a blue infinity shape.
Mr Zuckerberg said the new name reflects that over time, users will not need to use Facebook to use the company's other services.
The word "meta" comes from the Greek word meaning "beyond".

To an outsider, a metaverse may look like a version of VR, but some people believe it could be the future of the internet.
Instead of being on a computer, people in a metaverse might use a headset to enter a virtual world connecting all sorts of digital environments.
It is hoped the virtual world could be used for practically anything from work, play and concerts, to socialising with friends and family.
Facebook said it intends to start trading it shares under the new stock ticker MVRS from 1 December.




What’s all this about then?

Mike Oxsaw 5:19 Sun Oct 31
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An excellent stance for excellent people.

Jaan Kenbrovin 5:14 Sun Oct 31
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I’m not concerned by this as I’m not on Facebook.

riosleftsock 5:10 Sun Oct 31
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QFB

Unless somebody actively seeks to read up on it, most people will not understand the transhumanism coming down the tracks from our elites.

Queens Fish Bar 4:58 Sun Oct 31
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If you're not concerned about this then you don't understand what is going on.

BRANDED 3:38 Sun Oct 31
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Swiss. 1:43 Sun Oct 31
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Only old cunts use Facebook these days. So anyone cool like me doesn’t give a s

Its probably why they are one of the few social media companies that actually make gazzilions of quids.

Nurse Ratched 3:00 Sun Oct 31
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Indeed, zeb.

zebthecat 2:53 Sun Oct 31
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Metastatic

riosleftsock 2:06 Sun Oct 31
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Make
Everything
Trump
Again

Swiss. 1:43 Sun Oct 31
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Only old cunts use Facebook these days. So anyone cool like me doesn’t give a shit.

gph 6:20 Fri Oct 29
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Meta = female form of the Hebrew word for "dead", or so the BBC tells me.

Apparently, this has led to much piss-taking in Israel.

Matthew Holmes 4:00 Fri Oct 29
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https://twitter.com/bobby/status/1453793753408450566?s=20

my comment on this agrees with this tweet

Syd Puddefoot 3:47 Fri Oct 29
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Meh Ta

Toe Rag 10:49 Fri Oct 29
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Facebook actually became quite interesting when I turned off all my “friends” and just used it to follow pages of hobby related things and societies I’m interested in and stopped looking at pictures of pints on a table in some Spanish shit hole resort on the Costas, or some cunt’s snot covered spawn choking on a rusk.

Still binned it off eventually as the advertising was nausing me off.

Sven Roeder 10:29 Fri Oct 29
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Given Facebook now owns FACEBOOK, Instagram, WhatsApp, several governments , Fake News Inc, & Untraceable Racial Abuse Enterprises it makes sense to rename the holding company to reflect that.

Now they can add a football club to their portfolio
West Meta United playing in shirts with a big blue THUMB on the front

wanstead_hammer 9:47 Fri Oct 29
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Meat is just wrong.

Charoo 9:17 Fri Oct 29
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A site used by Metards

Johnson 8:55 Fri Oct 29
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The Facebook app is staying as Facebook unfortunately, was looking forward to that spinning people out.

I expect it still will somehow though.

Leonard Hatred 8:06 Fri Oct 29
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I Meta strange lady

She made me nervous

She took me in and made me breakfast

legrandefromage 5:17 Fri Oct 29
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Jaan Meta

Capitol Man 3:52 Fri Oct 29
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Meta Kenny.

Jaan Kenbrovin 3:32 Fri Oct 29
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As if meta wasn't a hideously overused cringeworthy modern term used by the biggest fuckwits this planet has ever spawned, Facebook adopt it with glowing pride.

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