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Facebook Meta Rebranding

Comments discuss Facebook's rebranding to Meta, including resistance to using the new name, jokes about the change, acronym updates like FAANG, and branding implications.

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gentleman11 • Dec 17, 2021 • View on HN

Like how Facebook renamed itself to meta?

guerrilla • Oct 29, 2021 • View on HN

In this case by Meta I think they mean Facebook. Name change today in case you missed thar.

endofreach • Sep 23, 2022 • View on HN

Stop calling them Meta. It‘s Facebook.

sschueller • Oct 22, 2021 • View on HN

Isn't Facebook going to rename itself to meta or something very similar?

lmkg • Jan 21, 2022 • View on HN

Facebook is now Meta, so the acronyms have to change.

buggythebug • Feb 8, 2022 • View on HN

it's still facebook - stop calling it meta

knowsuchagency • Oct 28, 2021 • View on HN

A name to signify what facebook has METAstasized into

yumraj • Jun 9, 2023 • View on HN

Soon we’ll hear that Meta is changing its name back to Facebook.

vachina • Oct 12, 2022 • View on HN

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/facebook-company-is-now-me...

subroutine • Dec 14, 2021 • View on HN

Off-topic: has anyone actually started referring to Facebook as Meta (noticed the title swap)?