Facebook Plan To Rebrand Name To Meta

[Gozie51]

Facebook Rebrands Name To Meta



There are feeling from critics of Facebook that the name changing is made out of hiding from public criticism. Do you think this planned rebranding will change anything on the PR crisis or is going to remain despite the name changing ?

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[The Sceptical Chymist]

I've only heard bits of info here and there about what's going on with Facebook as far as their problems are concerned, but as I understand it they're coming under a lot of scrutiny from the government for their privacy policies and whatnot.  That's so hypocritical of the US government, it's almost laughable if it weren't so Orwellian.

And yes, I do happen to think this rebranding/renaming of their shiny new thing is a blatant attempt at misdirection and distraction.  They know damn well they've reduced people's attention spans to a small fraction of what they used to be, so obviously they think if they fart in the room loud enough, people's heads will turn away from the main issues long enough for them to come up with a plan.

Also, fuck Facebook and Zuckerberg.  Both of them are the reason (along with the existence of smartphones) why 20 people can be standing in a room together and not be genuinely social--because they're on a cheap substitute, i.e., social media.  It's sickening, and I'll have no part of it.

[Gozie51]

Also, fuck Facebook and Zuckerberg.  Both of them are the reason (along with the existence of smartphones) why 20 people can be standing in a room together and not be genuinely social--because they're on a cheap substitute, i.e., social media.  It's sickening, and I'll have no part of it.

Yeah I kind of really consent with this and this is the major kind of criticism on Facebook. It has over blown the social media gig, has made fake life glamorous , giving people out as friends and yet they are far apart in anything that looks like such.

The fake life and criticism will soon spill into the new acquired (WhatsApp) just like Instagram has already been bastardised with nudity, the sanity of friendship is far from the technology for now. Not caring about the negative influence of young people and people in general while connecting people.

Many people have also been scammed through Facebook by people who hid on guise of friends. There are lots of security issues and those are the critism.

[arallmuus]

Do you think this planned rebranding will change anything on the PR crisis or is going to remain despite the name changing ?

Im not sure if this is intended for some sort distraction but Facebook are building 'metaverse' so some rebranding might make sense. I mean the word 'facebook' doesnt really fit the metaverse image though

so obviously they think if they fart in the room loud enough, people's heads will turn away from the main issues long enough for them to come up with a plan.

Yeah exactly unless they completed that whole metaverse project then all eyes are going to still stare at facebook and Mark. Once they completed the whole project then perhaps they could divert some of the attention away but that is probably going to take years before it is completed

Also, fuck Facebook and Zuckerberg.  Both of them are the reason (along with the existence of smartphones) why 20 people can be standing in a room together and not be genuinely social--because they're on a cheap substitute, i.e., social media.  It's sickening, and I'll have no part of it.

One of the negative effect of it yeah but informations are spread much faster with social media nowadays.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

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Seems we forget how massive of an impact Facebook has contributes to the growth of the world been one global villages. We shouldn't blame the creators of innovations that changes the world just because few people are using it wrongly. If you're blaming Mark for the fake life people are living online then you should blame satoshi for giving scammers an avenue to scam with the tendency of never getting caught.

You think without the social media the gospel of a decentralized currency, taking power from the elite and giving it back to the people would had been heard by many. Facebook and other social media did have their contributions, them been poorly manage shoudn't be used to downplay that. Let talk about smartphone, without them would we even be here today taking about a way to send money from the comfort otnour home decentralized.

Are we just going to throw away all the positivity social media has brought into the game, I don't care whatever Facebook or mark is planning, provided it increase awareness about bitcoin we're good as with time, truth always prevail.

[Charles-Tim]

Im not sure if this is intended for some sort distraction but Facebook are building 'metaverse' so some rebranding might make sense. I mean the word 'facebook' doesnt really fit the metaverse image though

The metaverse that is not yet existing and that will take time before it will exist. I see this as a reason Facebook is rebranding its name earlier:

The timing of this makes it look like it is a rebranding exercise - to take attention away from the trove of negative stories hanging around the company right now. Critics People believe Facebook has done this because the brand has become toxic. They may well not buy into the rebrand and continue to call the company Facebook.

The metaverse doesn't yet exist. Zuckerberg was keen to stress it was a long-term product. So having a name totally unrelated to your main offering is perhaps a little…strange. Almost all of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising from Facebook and Instagram.

[RickDeckard]

And yes, I do happen to think this rebranding/renaming of their shiny new thing is a blatant attempt at misdirection and distraction.

I think that people that fail to see this simply do it because they choose to do it since all the sights are there. Very few countries are covering just how dark things run behind Facebook. We already knew that a massive company harvesting an incredible pile of user/personal information isn't always a good sight, and I think the first "public" perception of how big is Facebook reach was when the Cambridge Analytical case hit the news[1]. Fast forward some time to the present we've got to thank Mrs. Frances Haugen - an ex-product manager at Facebook now a recognized whistleblower of the company [2]- for providing the world a pile of documents that show how they do not care about the end users. Whoever is able to spend some time - which I recommend - I highly encourage to just "loose" yourself in the pile of documents that were exposed[3]. From the pile of information, I highlight some here[4][5][6] (I haven't went through all the documentation sadly) - but there are reports that there will be a lot more to be revealed daily in the weeks that follow. At least there are news outlets that throw the suspicion out in the air[7] and doesn't let it sway from their true intentions:

The re-branding comes amid a barrage of news reports over the past month after Frances Haugen, a former employee turned whistleblower, released a trove of internal company documents to news outlets, lawmakers and regulators.

Also, fuck Facebook and Zuckerberg.  Both of them are the reason (along with the existence of smartphones) why 20 people can be standing in a room together and not be genuinely social--because they're on a cheap substitute, i.e., social media.  It's sickening, and I'll have no part of it.

This grinds my gears a lot - what stories will we have in the future about our relationships and good times spent with our colleges? I don't want to look back on my life and think that I spent a good chunk of my it browsing endlessly on social media (which I don't thank god) but I really don't think that people make this kind of introspection nowadays. It saddens me whenever I see groups of people that are all focused on their smartphones, sometimes even commenting each others social media instead of enjoying the fact that they are together and that they should seize the moment because one never knows where we might be tomorrow.

And as for the Metaverse? I don't have the sufficient knowledge to have an opinion about it even thought that it may even the future. However I would really like for them to solve their "infrastructure" problems of today before thinking into jumping into the future.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
[2]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/24/frances-haugen-i-never-wanted-to-be-a-whistleblower-but-lives-were-in-danger
[3]https://www.protocol.com/facebook-papers
[4]https://www.theverge.com/22743753/facebook-tier-list-countries-leaked-documents-content-moderation
[5]https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-knew-about-failed-police-abusive-content-globally-documents-2021-10-25/
[6]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-failed-the-world/620479/
[7]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/facebook-changes-company-name-to-meta.html

[batang_bitcoin]

About their planned of rebranding, we didn't really expected them to that but about them going to meta, crypto and all of related to it, they've planned it long time ago.
I don't think that they've done that to just cover up themselves from criticism because it's just a rebranding. But I don't like a lot of things about Facebook but we'll see if the next plan they have about going with metaverse is going to benefit anybody but for sure, they'll be the ones that will benefit the most.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I don't think that renaming will somehow change the reputation of the social network itself. Those who did not trust Facebook before will remain in their positions. META - does this mean that the social network will collect user metadata even more?
I liked the article in The Economist magazine, which very competently says: "Who wants a metaverse created by Facebook? Perhaps as many people as would like their health care provided by Philip Morris."
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/10/09/facebook-is-nearing-a-reputational-point-of-no-return

[Wexnident]

There are feeling from critics of Facebook that the name changing is made out of hiding from public criticism. Do you think this planned rebranding will change anything on the PR crisis or is going to remain despite the name changing ?

No, it wouldn't. The most it's gonna change is that people would probably turn their attention into the name change, instead of the real issue that caused Facebook to pull out these changes to change what the public has their eyes on right now. Facebook was a bright idea in the beginning but just ended up really, idk, disappointing nowadays? Not to mention the privacy issues and whatnots that Facebook has been facing right now. And honestly, I expect their rebranding shenanigans to not even have that much impact on what their company is going to do. Heck, it might even flub all on its own imo, it is Facebook we are talking about after all.

[Ucy]

So, this is about changing the name of the Holding Company (which include Facebook, Instagram, Whatapp etc) to Meta rather than changing or rebranding Facebook name.
I guess they are doing the name changing to suit the kind of Virtual World they will "evolve" into in the future which is called Metaverse

In regards to the question, It really depends on whether he(owner) is doing that to distract people from the alleged PR Crisis, which I don't know much about.

[Betwrong]

Adopting a new company brand for a well established company is rarely a good idea. Idk, maybe they at facebook don't like their current reputation that much? And maybe for a reason.

The more I watched this video named "Everything Facebook revealed about the Metaverse in 11 minutes"



the more it reminded me of this scene from "The Mitchells vs. the Machines"



In the film it didn't end up well, it almost caused the end of human civilization. But that's just a film, right? We'll see what happens in real life.

[davis196]

Facebook stopped being "cool" years ago.In the last few years,Facebook turned into the social network of the old people.The young people moved to Instagram,but Instagram turned into Facebook 2.0 so the young people moved into apps like Tik Tok and Snapchat (which are totally stupid and cringe,but what else can you expect from kids and teenagers).
Zuckerberg wants to squeeze as much profits from Facebook and Instagram as he can.There's nothing wrong with that,after all,this is a business like any other business.Selling user metadata and maintaining a toxic and addictive social media environment are bad business practices,but they aren't considered illegal.
Maybe Facebook is doomed to become the new MySpace and disappear into oblivion.Changing the name won't help the company to become better.

[kryptqnick]

Facebook has power in many areas. We usually say Facebook when we're talking about the social media platform, but it's also Oculus (VR), Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook has been in big scandals over the years, so Meta is supposed to be a more neutral name for a parental organization that would signify power, but also not associated with privacy and mental health concerns yet. Also, perhaps it's somehow helpful with lawsuits because if the name's different, they're not suing the right company. On the rebranding note, after facing tons of criticism with Libra, Facebook renamed the project Diem and decided to start over.

[oHnK]

I've seen anime that has a virtual reality theme and now it looks like Mark Zukenberg will realize it via Facebook for the first time.  However, there will be positive and negative impacts from these changes and innovations.  We should have prepared ourselves for all eventualities.  If there is criticism, it seems that it should only strengthen innovation because correcting an innovation means slowing down the course of global development.  Maybe this metaverse project is 100% real, it will take a long time, but this is also the first step that can't be faulted.  The positive thing for the crypto market, I see this will be a company that will support crypto in transactions in it because I believe this metaverse will not only focus on virtual reality but will also be related to crypto and NFT.  Isn't this good news for the market?

[habebe]

exactly,, Facebook now is going to having change had name meta they well  know now at no longer have change still it meta, anyway even if Facebook had changed to meta no matter what happened still at there will maybe something gonna happen but still in our mine that Facebook are good memories for many people going as part members  in a social media crypto or else.

[mk4]

Just a heads up to the readers: Facebook, Inc(the company) =/= Facebook(the social media platform)

They are NOT renaming the Facebook platform to Meta lol. Facebook will still be Facebook, Instagram will still be Instagram, etc. They're just renaming the umbrella company(Facebook, inc), because Facebook, Inc(now Meta Platforms, Inc), owns a good number of platforms. Namely: Facebook/Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and etc. There seems to be a lot of confusion lol.

[Gozie51]

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Seems we forget how massive of an impact Facebook has contributes to the growth of the world been one global villages. We shouldn't blame the creators of innovations that changes the world just because few people are using it wrongly. If you're blaming Mark for the fake life people are living online then you should blame satoshi for giving scammers an avenue to scam with the tendency of never getting caught.

You think without the social media the gospel of a decentralized currency, taking power from the elite and giving it back to the people would had been heard by many. Facebook and other social media did have their contributions, them been poorly manage shoudn't be used to downplay that. Let talk about smartphone, without them would we even be here today taking about a way to send money from the comfort otnour home decentralized.

  lol nope . No doubt Facebook has been highly instrumental to the digital revolution so far. Yes bounties have successfully reached out to people via social media and all those are part of the crypto revolution but as always there are two sides to a coin, there are disadvantages and advantages, two sides to every story too. The PR critics are exploring the insecurity in social media and Facebook is just the present culprit for now either because they are trying to hide on a new umbrella name (meta) , who knows what twitter will come up with  

[Ucy]

Adopting a new company brand for a well established company is rarely a good idea. Idk, maybe they at facebook don't like their current reputation that much? And maybe for a reason.

The more I watched this video named "Everything Facebook revealed about the Metaverse in 11 minutes"



the more it reminded me of this scene from "The Mitchells vs. the Machines"

https://youtu.be/WYzj6y3BN2U
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In the film it didn't end up well, it almost caused the end of human civilization. But that's just a film, right? We'll see what happens in real life.

Nice video. I was actually trying to see how useful this is. I think it's interesting, especially the part about working remotely in a Virtual World... that part calmed me abit. Even though I haven't finished the video, I think there is still the possibility of abuse/misuse just like any other thing humans have ever created.

[Hydrogen]

Elon Musk offered to buy and delete facebook awhile ago. Is the offer still on the table?

If I remember right, data about facebook surveillance came from internally leaked information. Which was irrelevant. Due to surveillance of social media being completely normalized policy. Desktop operating systems have always logged and tracked end user data. Not many know Windows 98 had a index.dat file which secretly logged emails, visited websites and other end user meta data. Oldbies would routinely purge the file to prevent tracking. Today's operating systems and social media platforms should be expected to utilize far superior tracking by default.

Surveillance is an irrelevant point IMO.

AFAIK facebook's troubles stem from it doggedly pursuing first its own native libracoin cryptocurrency, and now the rebranded diem cryptocurrency. I think if facebook abandoned efforts to deploy its own crypto, their problems would disappear.