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> I think almost everybody thought renaming Facebook to Meta was a bad idea Do they? Why? I don't see how it did any harm, and people are way more willing to
by sebzim4500 3y ago
> I think almost everybody thought renaming Facebook to Meta was a bad idea
Do they? Why?
I don't see how it did any harm, and people are way more willing to admit an association with Meta than with Facebook.
- PaulHoule 3y agoWhen it first happened I thought they were trying to evade Facebook’s bad reputation for privacy and politics and made a point to keep calling it Facebook. After about a year “Meta” had the same stink of death around it as NFTs and I figured I’d be doing it no favor by calling it by its preferred name.
- tehbeard 3y agoI thought 'Meta' was the same shuffle Google did with 'Alphabet', some of financial / legal shenanigans.. Though speaking of while trawling the wiki page on Alphabet.... > X (formerly Google X) is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010.