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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)
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:31:29 PM PDT
by
cba123
To: cba123
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:32:03 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom Hi Dad)
To: cba123
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:32:15 PM PDT
by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam)
To: cba123
Well, they collect meta data on everyone.
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:32:28 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: cba123
So now when they have a data breach, they can say “your Meta data was stolen”.
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:34:22 PM PDT
by
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
To: cba123
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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))
To: cba123
So Meta-Facebook. MF for short. The people who work there are MFer’s. This might work.
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:36:42 PM PDT
by
beef
(The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
To: cba123
I nevah Meta social-media I didn’t approach with caution
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:36:50 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
To: cba123
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.
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:38:05 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Like a dog being shown a card trick )
To: cba123
Metastasize was too long.
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:38:35 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: al baby
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:39:30 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Let's Go Brandon!)
To: cba123
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:43:18 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: cba123
What does that even mean?
They took a perfectly good name, known throughout the world, and replaced it. Why?
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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)
To: cba123
Why not Meth?
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:49:33 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: cba123
A pig by any other name still is.
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posted on
10/28/2021 1:55:09 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(A Stranger Is A Friend You Haven't Met Yet)
To: cba123
They renamed their stock, like “Google” is known as “Alphabet Inc” on the stock market.
They’re still “facebook.com”.
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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)
To: cba123
Dumb as a box of metamorphic rocks.
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posted on
10/28/2021 2:00:23 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: cba123
Make
Everything
Trump
Again
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posted on
10/28/2021 2:07:51 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: cba123
I prefer Facebutt so I’ll stick with that.
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posted on
10/28/2021 2:08:44 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Arrest and charge Anthony Fauci. )
To: cba123
Meta fact, said it wasn’t.
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