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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
(I will continue to call it FaceButt - because it consists of a bunch of RW terrorists & their propaganda being shoved in your face)
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse
Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the companys annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giants ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.
Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July, he told The Verge that, over the next several years, we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.
The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the companys annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giants ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.
Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July, he told The Verge that, over the next several years, we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.
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Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (Original Post)
CousinIT
Oct 2021
OP
"AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones"
lagomorph777
Oct 2021
#10
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)1. How about Zucker's
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)2. In other words, Facebook brand is a bit too soiled...time for a new name!
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)3. Like lipstick on a pig...
Comfortably_Numb
(3,797 posts)4. A turd by any other name will still smell as rotten.
comradebillyboy
(10,134 posts)5. Remember when Coca-Cola re branded and brought out the "New Coke"?
It was a marketing disaster. Hoping Zuckerberg has a similar experience.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)6. I suggest "FalseBook" or "FascistBook"
underpants
(182,717 posts)7. MyFace? FaceHub?
Salviati
(6,008 posts)8. They've decided to switch to an unused company name with a better reputation:
Philip Morris
Deb
(3,742 posts)9. How about 2.0 Faced?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)10. "AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones"
So he's setting up a giant extortion database. Awesome.
Volaris
(10,269 posts)11. so...the Blackwater version of 'rebranding'.
GOT IT.
Crataegus
(60 posts)12. Faceplant?
Stinky The Clown
(67,776 posts)13. I have a name I wish it would use: OUT OF BUSINESS
Cha
(297,026 posts)14. Facelift or Fakebook