Do you use the term "Meta" when talking about Facebook etc.?

[EndlessSummer]

No.I just call it facebook like everyone else.

 

[Dan Thunder]

No because Meta's not a product/application, it's just the parent company. It'd be like referring to anything Google related as Alphabet.

 

[Version 3.0]

It's Oculus Quest 2 to me. Not Meta Quest 2.

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You still have to download the Oculus app to set it up (just did this for a new user this weekend), and still go to oculus.com to buy games. I suppose they'll get around to changing those, but they shouldn't. Oculus is a cool name. Meta sucks.

 

[Skade]

Nah, and i' pretty sure that if i did, the person i'd be talking to would be confused as heck.

I mean... It's like Alphabet and Google. It's Google no matter what.

 

[Red Liquorice]

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[Messofanego]

I thought Meta was the VR universe thing, but Facebook or "Meta" doesn't come up into conversation much so I just still say Facebook.

 

[Dis]

Nope, to be fair I don't talk about them much but even still I refer to them as Facebook or oculus still. Hell my mum and mother in law use Facebook non stop every day and had no idea wtf meta was when I asked them. They know Facebook as Facebook. I don't know why Facebook thought a rebrand would work as it seems a lot of their users have no fucking idea what it is.

 

[Small Red Boy]

No, in the same way I don't say alphabet when talking about google.

 

[UltimateHigh]

i don't talk about facebook and if I did, 'meta' would just confuse them.

 

[Mivey]

Even a lot of media seems to always say "formerly known as Facebook" when saying Meta, so I'm not sure the switch has really been all that successful yet.

 

[Nastrodamous]

only ironically.

 

[Lord Fanny]

Meta deez nuts

 

[Getting Away With It]

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.

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That's because it's a different situation completely. As many people have said throughout this thread, Facebook as a company is no more. The company is Meta, with Facebook as one of their products. There are no non-Meta apps now, they all belong to Meta (previously Facebook). Meanwhile there is still a company named Google, which sits under a holding company that isn't really relevant to consumers.

On topic, I generally use Facebook still but I imagine over time I'll transition to saying Meta as it just becomes more common (their stock ticker only changed a week or two ago actually, so it is all still pretty recent).

 

[Mukrab]

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.

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I dont think there is any confusion about it. People are just not gonna change the name they've been saying for years. Same reason i still say SWAT in halo and not tactical slayer. You change the name after 15 years, dont expect people to be calling it the new name. Especially not in the short term. And wince we're talking about facebook here. Fuck'em. I'm gonna call them what they dont want me to call them.

 

[Sanctuary]

Fuck no, and I doubt I ever will.

 

[Ashrak]

Just to make fun about them for the namechange.

 

[Massive Nights]

I'm not doing their PR whitewashing for them, it's Facebook, always will be.

 

[Dark Ninja]

No I mean the site and the app on mobile is still called Facebook. I guess if you were talking about the parent company you would say meta? Same with Instagram it just says "from meta" when launching the app. It's like when old people used to call every video game Nintendo.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

No, and unless I am getting paid not to, it's facebook.

I am more than comfortable saying "Facebook owns Instagram" because more people know what the hell I am talking about than if I said "Meta owns Instagram"

 

[Couleurs]

When a company decides to change its name largely because of bad public sentiment toward the company, I stick with the old name. It's still Comcast to me instead of Xfinity, for example

 

[Tobor]

Fuck Facebook and whatever they want to call themselves.

 

[Falchion]

Absolutely not, they will always be Facebook.

 

[gilko79]

I hardly talk about it at all, but when I do I certainly don't call it meta. It was facebook back when I still used it, so facebook it shall forever be.

 

[gig]

Big edgelord energy in here. It's just a company name and it's not going anywhere. If you're calling Facebook the product Facebook then whatever, but if you're saying Facebook owns Instagram then you're just wrong, and you're proving nothing.

 

[Patriiick]

I've uttered neither 'Facebook' or 'Meta' since I binned it off. I don't think i've heard any of my friends mention it either. We're all a bit old for that shit now.

 

[collige]

No. They changed the name to avoid the negative connotations with "Facebook", but since those negative connotations are well deserved I don't really want to help Zuck's rebranding effort. Same goes for Xfinity, imma keep calling it "Comcast" until further notice.

 

[rusty chrome]

Nope and never will. Facebook needs to disappear entirely.

 

[Walter White Walker]

No, because I've never had a reason to refer to the parent company of Facebook. Even if I did, I'd call it Facebook because screw the metaverse nonsense.

 

[Fleck0]

No, I heard an ad for a VR game the other day and it said "for the Meta Quest" and it took me a minute to realize they meant the Oculus.

 

[Kneefoil]

I don't even remember they changed their name unless someone reminds me, so no.

 

[SmackDaddy]

i do extremely sarcastically and then make a joke about it. they're a joke.

 

[GeoGonzo]

Good poll results.👍

 

[Ultima_5]

I️ only ever see it when people are talking about stocks

 

[The Albatross]

No, I stubbornly call them Facebook. Unless I'm having a really in the weeds conversation about the company. I also call Google , Google, not Alphabet.

 

[Skyscourge]

The product is still called facebook, I see no reason to refer to it otherwise. Unless we're talking about like meta stock or meta products like oculus.

 

[Trouble]

Why would I want to help a shitty company rebrand?

 

[DiipuSurotu]

No, I heard an ad for a VR game the other day and it said "for the Meta Quest" and it took me a minute to realize they meant the Oculus.

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Oculus was probably their only salveagable brand, and they still renamed it lol

 

[Chrizzy_81]

I was wondering, what are Meta-chlorians?

 

[balohna]

I guess I would if I was talking about the company, but I don't.

 

[thecouncil]

i dont talk about it enough to refer to it as anything, really.

 

[cakefoo]

I call them Meta because that's their name.

The irony is that, if you keep calling them facebook, you're doing exactly what they wanted- not badmouthing Meta.

 

[MrBS]

Nope, the opportunity never arises though.

 

[Astro Cat]

I refuse to do anything fuckboy Zuck tells me too.

 

[just_myles]

Hell no. They hijacked this word.

 

[Dreamwriter]

I usually go all wordy. Meta/Facebook/Oculus.

 

[GamerJM]

No, but it refers to Facebook the company, not Facebook the website/app. Usually when I'm talking about Facebook I'm talking about the latter, and I can't recall a time recently where I've talked about the former. (and the only time I recently talked about the former was when I was talking about social media platforms with my partner a few weeks ago I think)