Facebook Renames to Meta • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#41

Post by bytematic » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #17

dbish wrote: post #8

MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice

If we didn't change G to A I don't think we'll change F to M either.

I like MANAA

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#42

Post by shoto_io » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

Let’s have a “Meta” discussion about this rebrand.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#43

Post by xyst » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

Basically name squatting off the popular use of "meta" to describe a self referential event/action.

Also FB lately has become synonymous with causing significant harm to democracy across multiple continents. A corporate name change is a cheap way to deceive people in the future. When they (future generations) try to lookup the history of "Meta", they won't immediately see the crap that FB produced in the dark ages.

It's the equivalent of a restaurant or business changing their DBA because of shitty online reviews. Or car dealerships advertising "new management"

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#44

Post by tasogare » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

dbish wrote: post #8

MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice

In France it's GAFAM that is most used, which makes sense since Microsoft is way more influential on the tech scene than Netflix, which is just a content provider.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#45

Post by uptown » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

Sure complicates the questions around what metadata they keep about a person.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#46

Post by heydenberk » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

Some of the largest companies in the world are named after fruits, misspelled big numbers and rainforests, but even with that set of comparands, this seems a bit silly.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by ModernMech » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

aaaaaaaaaaab wrote: post #34

dbish wrote: post #8

MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice

If you replace F with M, you must replace G with A as well.

MANAA

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#48

Post by mrgleeco » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

Wonder if gTLD is a thing here. If they already not on it, seems like a good (quarter million) squat.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#49

Post by aylmao » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #17

dbish wrote: post #8

MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice

If we didn't change G to A I don't think we'll change F to M either.

MAAAN

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

#50

Post by jimkleiber » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

I wonder how this will help their case against antitrust. At first blush, it seems to me that this might hurt them more than help them. Announcing one's desire to move to a higher level, to transcend, gives me the impression they want to be even more of a monopoly, not less.

Or maybe it has the sense of "we don't care about your national laws, we will do as we please"—a bold challenge to nation-state regulation.