Facebook changing it's name to Meta

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Facebook changing it's name to Meta



By a staff reporter: Mark Zuckerberg announced, “Right now our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything we’re doing today, let alone in the future”.



 Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the "metaverse," a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile internet. 





Meta is now the official company brand, covering Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus and more. Zuckerberg said that Meta comes from the Greek word for "beyond", and better represents the company now. Announcing the company’s new name, the Harvard drop-out said,.“We are a company that builds technology to connect people”