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FAANG starts with F because it makes a word, not because Facebook is particularly appealing in any respect. What else are you going to call it? NAGAF? GAANF?
by mywittyname 5y ago
FAANG starts with F because it makes a word, not because Facebook is particularly appealing in any respect. What else are you going to call it? NAGAF? GAANF? ANGFA?
- esyir 5y agoSimilarly, I've always claimed that Netflix is there largely to avoid an offensive acronym.
- samatman 5y agoMy personal favourite is FAAAM: Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft. Obviously the AAA league can be whatever order you want. Microsoft is more deserving of a slot than Netflix, and Google is just a subsidiary of a company called Alphabet now, however weird and arbitrary that division is in practice.
- kbelder 5y agoAnd I realize that Facebook is a much larger entity than Twitter, but I think that Twitter has a larger and more destructive cultural influence.
- gerash 5y agoI agree. From my experience, there are fewer fake and anonymous accounts on FB than on Twitter. Also a friend of mine had their home address, phone number and real names leaked to social media without his consent. He was able to take it down from FB properties but Twitter couldn't care less.
- notacoward 5y agoI think F-MAGA or MAGA-F (replacing Netflix with Microsoft) would be pretty appropriate. They have, after all, done much to enable the person associated with that other acronym.