Are You Feeling It? Mark Zuckerberg Renames Facebook To ‘Meta’
Earlier this month it was revealed that Facebook would be changing its famous name. This Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg has finally announced the new change.
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The company will change its name to Meta, effectively. “Our mission remains the same — it’s still about bringing people together,” Zuckerberg said Thursday during his keynote kicking off Facebook Connect, its annual conference for AR/VR developers and creators. “But now we have a new North Star, to help bring the metaverse to life, and we have a new name that reflects the full breadth of what we do and the future that we want to help build.”
While announcing the name change, Zuckerberg explained that Facebook is one of the most-used products in the world, but “increasingly it just doesn’t encompass everything we do. From now on, we’re going to be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first,” he added. That means that over time users will not need to use Facebook to access its other products, Variety notes.
The new change come as the tech giant comes under fire from regulators around the world over its business practices, Facebook is reportedly planning to change its name, according to a report by The Verge.
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