tangent: it might not be worth the tens of billions that have been dumped into the "Metaverse", but I've always thought FB rebranding as "Meta" was a savvy stra

tangent: it might not be worth the tens of billions that have been dumped into the "Metaverse", but I've always thought FB rebranding as "Meta" was a savvy strategic decision. Unlike Alphabet — which everyone still calls "Google" b/c Google search is still the most useful and ubiquitous part of the Alphabet conglomerate — plenty of people use things like Whatsapp and IG without ever having to touch FB (beyond its login infrastructure) and many of these users despise FB and its perceived "boomer" audience and content. "Meta AI" at least sounds much more congruent and palatable than "Facebook AI", even if the people and processes remain the same.