News Forum - Meet Meta, the newly rebranded parent company of Facebook

[Thaiger]

Don’t forget to like our posts and follow us on Facebook, er, Meta! Facebook, the social network recently under fire for knowingly ignoring the harm their algorithms were doing, has announced a parent company rebrand to their new name: Meta. Founder Mark Zuckerberg says the name change is to represent a move beyond the social network to a virtual reality “metaverse” though critics claim it’s to deflect from the current controversy. The name change to Meta will only apply to the parent company, and apps including Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp will keep their names. Meanwhile, the giant company will shift […]

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[mickkotlarski]

Changing the name doesn't always wash away the dirt.

[Bob20]

I'm not on FB and now I'm not on Meta either

Anyone going to click "like" for that?

[gummy]

4 minutes ago, Bob20 said:

I'm not on FB and now I'm not on Meta either

Anyone going to click "like" for that?

done

[Jason]

Meta...... We have a laxative in my country called Metamucil?!?! Same same....a leopard can't change it's spots!  As we would say in my country "It doesn't pass the pub test"....

[mickkotlarski]

33 minutes ago, Bob20 said:

I'm not on FB and now I'm not on Meta either

Anyone going to click "like" for that?

Just did.

[Poolie]

Poor choice of name. Try Spewit instead. More fitting.

[Changnam43]

I deleted Facebook a couple of years ago when I realised how much harm it was doing.

[MikeW]

Now instead of being thrown in Facebook jail I can be thrown into meta jail 

[HiuMak]

16 hours ago, mickkotlarski said:

Changing the name doesn't always wash away the dirt.

If you see the concept of Meta, it is really mind boggling

[Paco]

Meta useless