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Facebook changes company name to Meta
CNBC ^ | 10/28/21 | Salvador Rodriquez

Posted on 10/28/2021 11:29:06 AM PDT by Levy78

Facebook on Thursday announced that it will change its company name to Meta.

The name change, which was announced at the Facebook Connect augmented and virtual reality conference, reflects the company’s growing ambitions beyond social media with the metaverse, a classic sci-fi term Facebook has adopted to describe its vision for working and playing in a virtual world

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; fakebook; meta
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1 posted on 10/28/2021 11:29:06 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: Levy78

So they didn’t go with Frckbook?


2 posted on 10/28/2021 11:30:57 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Levy78

Who cares


3 posted on 10/28/2021 11:31:26 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Levy78

LOL

Facebook will now trade under new stock symbol ‘MVRS’ starting Dec 1


4 posted on 10/28/2021 11:31:39 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Levy78

The mask is off.
They are now the Social Media Gateway for the world.


5 posted on 10/28/2021 11:32:10 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: janetjanet998

Let’s start calling them “metavirus” then.


6 posted on 10/28/2021 11:32:11 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Oh boy, here it comes. Just as they predicted. The metaverse will consume most people with its bewitching capacity for entertainment and pleasure enhancements. This will be the end of civilization as we know it.


7 posted on 10/28/2021 11:32:37 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I had to change my homepage because it was embellished somewhat. Apologies to all.)
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To: Levy78

No way. You’re making this up!


8 posted on 10/28/2021 11:32:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Levy78

Spelled backwards. ATE M


9 posted on 10/28/2021 11:33:19 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Levy78

Metta World Peace?


10 posted on 10/28/2021 11:33:37 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Levy78

Meta-a-fool on Facebook that said FB was changing the name to Meta.


11 posted on 10/28/2021 11:34:16 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Levy78

Meta - Making Everything Tyrannical Again 🤪


12 posted on 10/28/2021 11:34:49 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Levy78

short for Metamucil.


13 posted on 10/28/2021 11:35:12 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Levy78

Meta for meta data.


14 posted on 10/28/2021 11:35:34 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Levy78
What?!?


15 posted on 10/28/2021 11:36:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Levy78

Changing their name like a shady contractor trying to avoid responsibility for past failures.


16 posted on 10/28/2021 11:37:04 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Levy78

Let go Meta...


17 posted on 10/28/2021 11:37:33 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: Levy78

Meta comes from the Greek prefix and preposition meta, which means “after” or “beyond.” When combined with words in English, meta- often signifies “change” or “alteration” as in the words metamorphic or metabolic.


18 posted on 10/28/2021 11:38:45 AM PDT by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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Video
Zuckerberg: I am proud to announce that, starting today, our company is now Meta
https://rumble.com/vodk4r-zuckerberg-i-am-proud-to-announce-that-starting-today-our-company-is-now-me.html


19 posted on 10/28/2021 11:38:45 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Levy78

Putting lipstick on a pig.


20 posted on 10/28/2021 11:38:54 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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