Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products
the Facebook company's new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we'll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. https://twitter.com/... Jack⚡️ / @jack : meta: referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc : Meta as in “we are a cancer to democracy metastasizing into a global surveillance and propaganda machine for boosting authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society... for profit!” https://twitter.com/... Charlotte Avery / @mc_lotta : https://twitter.com/... Heather Kelly / @heatherkelly : It looks like Mark Zuckerberg gave embargoed interviews to four white male reporters about Meta. Am I missing any others? Verge, Stratechery, The Information, that one that sounds like a bad word. Taylor Moore / @taylordotbiz : https://twitter.com/... Mike Bird / @birdyword : Zuckerberg saying “Never surprise people” and Clegg replying “Right, and that means being transparent” simply has to be a UK political in-joke that someone was paid to include. Chloë🧃🐛 / @chloe_somethin : his face after he says “connecting with people” made me scream https://twitter.com/... Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : So are the Big Four now.... MAGA? Diane Abbott MP / @hackneyabbott : Mark Zuckerberg renames his company. But Facebook still promotes toxic content preying on children & teens. It also stokes division. In the end he puts his astronomical profits before people. https://www.bbc.com/... Dan / @dantechnik : It's sad that the biggest drive for excitement and innovation in VR is Facebook. Which is also one of its greatest road blocks to wider adoption. Il never ever deal with Facebook or Meta and I'm really excited about VR. It's a shame Oculus couldn't have remained independent. https://twitter.com/... Matthew / @linkofhyrule89 : @pcgamer You just need a “Meta account” probably... Which is literally the same thing but renamed. Rose Jackson / @rosejackson3 : Why I've been urging folks to take the gaming world more seriously. It is often the leading edge of tech and social tech innovation, that then becomes mainstreamed for the world. A lot gets baked in early on, in an industry that gets ignored by policymakers and mocked by others https://twitter.com/... Jack Shafer / @jackshafer : “There is not a single person in existence who has scanned Facebook's News Feed and said: Yes, immerse me in this reality. I want to feel my uncle's meme about Hot Pockets on my face.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Chelsea Handler / @chelseahandler : Nothing I trust less than a man who has never connected with a single person telling me about connecting with people. https://twitter.com/... Anil Dash / @anildash : I'm old enough to remember that when Microsoft finally came under serious regulatory scrutiny in the 90s, they started making more and more vaporware “concept videos” with big promises about shit that they never shipped, hoping to distract from the legitimate criticism. Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : New name, same plan: #BreakUpBigTech. https://apnews.com/... Fred Vogelstein / @fvogelstein : Remember when FB went down a few weeks back?A compelling theory on why from friend Chris @SpotOnPolitics “They were migrating (internal systems/web pages/DNS) to Meta. Someone fucked up.Small DNS transfers are hairy. Imagine doing it across millions of servers around the world.” Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : Some Meta news — “Meta” used to be a brand owned by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's philanthropy. Meta, for unrelated reasons, is sunsetting. And so Facebook and CZI “entered an agreement to transfer those brand assets to Facebook.” Full news. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Bankston / @kevinbankston : I also love this image taken out of context. It's like he's ritually summoning his evil virtual doppleganger. Not the choice I would've gone with. https://twitter.com/... Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo : the meta logo is so bad. The thumbs up was a good logo! Directly tied to the product, sunny and whimsical. smushed infinity is inoffensive anodyne corporate nothingburber. @metasynthie : All you wiseacres making fun of Meta with accurate dunks on how it's a boring version of Ready Player Second Life won't be laughing when Zuck buys Salesforce and your HR department requires you to attend mandatory sessions in the metaverse in order to get healthcare benefits Lauren / @actnormalorelse : between the zuckerberg VR conference and musk saying he shouldn't be taxed so he can build offworld colonies it seems really obvious the billionaire playbook is to just pick a sci fi trope to focus on and hope we're all so stupid we take their claims at face value Will Oremus / @willoremus : Just realized with a sinking feeling that this whole NFT thing is basically the groundwork to Facebook forcing us to buy avatars as in-game purchases in the metaverse just to attend a business meeting. Legs will cost extra Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Facebook's rebrand to Meta is smart since it's an easy modifier for any product name: Meta Apps, Meta Business, Meta Avatar. https://twitter.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : I see where this is going. https://twitter.com/... Aaron Levie / @levie : If your startup is not building a holding company at this point, are you even really a company? @aslavitt : Meta accomplishes only one thing. It allows Mark Zuckerberg to say he's not the CEO of Facebook. He will now do less controversial things like build a new virtual universe where he can be king. While running Facebook. @pwnallthethings : Is there anyone literally anywhere that actually wants a metaverse @pixelatedboat : Okay this part was weird https://twitter.com/...
Announcing @Meta — the Facebook company's new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we'll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. https://twitter.com/...
Meta as in “we are a cancer to democracy metastasizing into a global surveillance and propaganda machine for boosting authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society... for profit!” https://twitter.com/...
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg gave embargoed interviews to four white male reporters about Meta. Am I missing any others? Verge, Stratechery, The Information, that one that sounds like a bad word.
Zuckerberg saying “Never surprise people” and Clegg replying “Right, and that means being transparent” simply has to be a UK political in-joke that someone was paid to include.
I'm old enough to remember that when Microsoft finally came under serious regulatory scrutiny in the 90s, they started making more and more vaporware “concept videos” with big promises about shit that they never shipped, hoping to distract from the legitimate criticism.
“There is not a single person in existence who has scanned Facebook's News Feed and said: Yes, immerse me in this reality. I want to feel my uncle's meme about Hot Pockets on my face.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Why I've been urging folks to take the gaming world more seriously. It is often the leading edge of tech and social tech innovation, that then becomes mainstreamed for the world. A lot gets baked in early on, in an industry that gets ignored by policymakers and mocked by others h…
It's sad that the biggest drive for excitement and innovation in VR is Facebook. Which is also one of its greatest road blocks to wider adoption. Il never ever deal with Facebook or Meta and I'm really excited about VR. It's a shame Oculus couldn't have remained independent. http…
Mark Zuckerberg renames his company. But Facebook still promotes toxic content preying on children & teens. It also stokes division. In the end he puts his astronomical profits before people. https://www.bbc.com/...
Some Meta news — “Meta” used to be a brand owned by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's philanthropy. Meta, for unrelated reasons, is sunsetting. And so Facebook and CZI “entered an agreement to transfer those brand assets to Facebook.” Full news. http…
Remember when FB went down a few weeks back?A compelling theory on why from friend Chris @SpotOnPolitics “They were migrating (internal systems/web pages/DNS) to Meta. Someone fucked up.Small DNS transfers are hairy. Imagine doing it across millions of servers around the world.”
I also love this image taken out of context. It's like he's ritually summoning his evil virtual doppleganger. Not the choice I would've gone with. https://twitter.com/...
the meta logo is so bad. The thumbs up was a good logo! Directly tied to the product, sunny and whimsical. smushed infinity is inoffensive anodyne corporate nothingburber.
All you wiseacres making fun of Meta with accurate dunks on how it's a boring version of Ready Player Second Life won't be laughing when Zuck buys Salesforce and your HR department requires you to attend mandatory sessions in the metaverse in order to get healthcare benefits
Just realized with a sinking feeling that this whole NFT thing is basically the groundwork to Facebook forcing us to buy avatars as in-game purchases in the metaverse just to attend a business meeting. Legs will cost extra
between the zuckerberg VR conference and musk saying he shouldn't be taxed so he can build offworld colonies it seems really obvious the billionaire playbook is to just pick a sci fi trope to focus on and hope we're all so stupid we take their claims at face value
Meta accomplishes only one thing. It allows Mark Zuckerberg to say he's not the CEO of Facebook. He will now do less controversial things like build a new virtual universe where he can be king. While running Facebook.
Meta and Instagram's Future The future of the ✨metaverse✨ is not yet defined - and I find that really exciting. Looking forward to continuing our work in this space and building this new medium together. ✌🏼 https://twitter.com/...
This entire Facebook Meta shitshow has real signs of a company where no one has the guts or cache to tell Mark Zuckerberg his ideas are embarrassingly stupid