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Do you use the term "Meta" when talking about Facebook etc.?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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"
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"
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oculus was probably their only salveagable brand, and they still renamed it lol
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)