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Facebook Renames Itself Meta (for crying out loud)
NY Slimes ^

Posted on 10/28/2021 1:31:29 PM PDT by cba123

The social network, under fire for spreading misinformation and other issues, said the change was part of its bet on a next digital frontier called the metaverse.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: meta; metadata; wth
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For crying out loud.

(Good grief)

1 posted on 10/28/2021 1:31:29 PM PDT by cba123
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To: cba123

Meta World Peace ?


2 posted on 10/28/2021 1:32:03 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/technology/facebook-rebrand-meta.html


3 posted on 10/28/2021 1:32:15 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam)
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Well, they collect meta data on everyone.


4 posted on 10/28/2021 1:32:28 PM PDT by Trillian
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So now when they have a data breach, they can say “your Meta data was stolen”.


5 posted on 10/28/2021 1:34:22 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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6 posted on 10/28/2021 1:35:05 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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So Meta-Facebook. MF for short. The people who work there are MFer’s. This might work.


7 posted on 10/28/2021 1:36:42 PM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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I nevah Meta social-media I didn’t approach with caution


8 posted on 10/28/2021 1:36:50 PM PDT by Gasshog
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Of course they aren’t actually changing the name of Facebook. They’re changing the company name. Just like how Google isn’t Google, they’re Alphabet.


9 posted on 10/28/2021 1:38:05 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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Metastasize was too long.


10 posted on 10/28/2021 1:38:35 PM PDT by PTBAA
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11 posted on 10/28/2021 1:39:30 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: cba123

It’s no beta.


12 posted on 10/28/2021 1:43:18 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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What does that even mean?

They took a perfectly good name, known throughout the world, and replaced it. Why?


13 posted on 10/28/2021 1:43:43 PM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision." Winston ChurchillA)
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Why not Meth?

14 posted on 10/28/2021 1:49:33 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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A pig by any other name still is.


15 posted on 10/28/2021 1:55:09 PM PDT by SkyDancer (A Stranger Is A Friend You Haven't Met Yet)
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They renamed their stock, like “Google” is known as “Alphabet Inc” on the stock market.

They’re still “facebook.com”.


16 posted on 10/28/2021 1:59:04 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: cba123
Dumb as a box of metamorphic rocks.


17 posted on 10/28/2021 2:00:23 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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Make
Everything
Trump
Again


18 posted on 10/28/2021 2:07:51 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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I prefer Facebutt so I’ll stick with that.


19 posted on 10/28/2021 2:08:44 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Arrest and charge Anthony Fauci. )
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Meta fact, said it wasn’t.


20 posted on 10/28/2021 2:09:55 PM PDT by DainBramage
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