Facebook is changing its name to Meta

Date:
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:32:12 +0000

Description:
Facebo..., sorry, Meta now is the new name for the world's largest social media platform.

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Facebook is officially changing its name to Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at the company's Oculus Connect event.

As Zuckerberg pointed out, the word meta comes from the Greek word for
beyond, which is where the CEO feels the company is going with its reinvigorated focus on augmented and virtual reality.

At Connect, Zuckerberg outlined several ambitious plans for it's calling a connected, "people-first" internet that focuses less on social media in its traditional form and more on newer media forms like AR and VR.

While the ways in which we'll interact with this platform are still coming together, the demos we saw showed seamless connectivity between Facebook's apps like Messenger and Oculus VR devices.

None of Facebook's apps like Messenger or Instagram have changed their names or descriptions to reflect the new direction for the company, but we're watching carefully to see what changes on Facebook's site in the next few hours.

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