Do you use the term "Meta" when talking about Facebook etc.?
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Depends if I talk about the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc., or just the Facebook product
I mean, the company that owns Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. is named Meta, so yes I call it Meta.
Just like I call Google's parent Alphabet.
But I have to deal with these companies professionally, so the names I use actually matter.
Just like I call Google's parent Alphabet.
But I have to deal with these companies professionally, so the names I use actually matter.
I can't remember the last time I talked about Facebook, but I probably used Facebook. I thought meta was the online hub thing? Pardon my confusion, I don't have Facebook.
If I were buying stock, applying for a job, or writing a contract, I would, but in everyday parlance, I just use the product name.
Exactly. I think some people incorrectly think that the Facebook platform itself was renamed Meta. Instead it's the parent company that changed its name.
The company that makes the "Google search product" is still legally named Google. Alphabet is a holding company, so it does not have any products, and is really only relevant if you are talking about the stock.
This is different from Facebook. Facebook renamed the company. There is no longer any legally entity named Facebook, only the product name.
Depends on the context like all language.
I don't see it as some whitewashing here.
It's actually worse since Instagram is also part of this and Instagram is just as toxic as Facebook itself, which is boomer central these days.
Instagram is hipper and more influential (although TikTok is starting to eat its lunch with younger generations).
It's just a catch-all to describe the nonsense.
I don't see it as some whitewashing here.
It's actually worse since Instagram is also part of this and Instagram is just as toxic as Facebook itself, which is boomer central these days.
Instagram is hipper and more influential (although TikTok is starting to eat its lunch with younger generations).
It's just a catch-all to describe the nonsense.
Alphabet wasn't a rebranding, it was a new holding company created through a reorganization of the various companies that Google was previously the parent of.
Google, both the company and the brand, still exists.
Really? The name is displayed in big on the splash screen when you open Instagram
Yup. I talk to someone who works under Meta, without that I probably wouldn't unless I was being ironic lol
No. It was and is a clear rebranding attempt to get away from the bad press associated with the name Facebook.
Someone earlier mentioned Google and Alphabet but as an end user of Google stuff I didn't even know what Alphabet was until it showed up in the opening of Silicon Valley with the Google stuff and I looked it up. Google products and services still use the Google brand unlike Facebook putting their Meta logo on their non-facebook apps and products, like Oculus.
Someone earlier mentioned Google and Alphabet but as an end user of Google stuff I didn't even know what Alphabet was until it showed up in the opening of Silicon Valley with the Google stuff and I looked it up. Google products and services still use the Google brand unlike Facebook putting their Meta logo on their non-facebook apps and products, like Oculus.
I don't talk about Facebook ever since quiting the service and if wasn't for Era I wouldn't have discovered "Meta".
Ive never even heard anyone call the company Meta, let alone me actually say frikken Meta.
I know people who are Instafreaks and they dont even understand what the new Meta logo at the bottom of the Instgram login even means.
I know people who are Instafreaks and they dont even understand what the new Meta logo at the bottom of the Instgram login even means.
