The announced change of name of Facebook is a fact, as the transition to the new era was announced by its founder. The company officially announced yesterday its decision to rename it Meta .
The name change was announced orally by Mark Zuckerberg during a virtual reality conference and according to the CNBC network reflects the growing ambitions of the company for activity beyond the social sector media , in metaverse , a classic science fiction term adopted by Facebook to describe its vision for work and play in a virtual world.
On hearing the news, Facebook 's stake in Wall Street increased by more than 3%, while the Bloomberg agency reports that the Facebook share will bear the abbreviation MVRS , from December 1, 2021.
“Today the world us consider one social media company, but in our DNA we are a company that builds technology to connect people,” said the founder of Facebook, adding that “the metaverse (” metaverse “) is the next frontier as that's just been social networking when we started. “
“We will change so that people do not see us primarily as a social media company but as a metaverse company,” Zuckerberg told the Verge in July.
According to the BBC, the change in the name of Facebook comes after a series of negative advertisements for the social media, after the revelations of the informant and former technician of the company, Francis Hogen.
Hogen spoke in Congress, but also in the British Parliament, and argued that high-ranking Facebook executives put their profits above the safety of users.
The Zuckerberg post
“When I started Facebook, we used to type mostly text on websites. When we got camera phones, the internet became more visual and mobile. “As connections became faster, video became a richer way to share experiences,” the Facebook founder said in a post.
“The next platform will be even more immersive – a tangible internet where you will be in the experience, not just looking at it. We call this metaverse and it will touch every product we manufacture “he continued.
“From now on, we will be on metaverse first, not Facebook. This means that over time you will not need a Facebook account to use our other services, “says Zuckerberg.
“As our new brand begins to appear in our products, I hope people around the world will know the Meta brand and the future we represent.”
It was a common secret
The announcement came after Zuckerberg introduced the metaverse, the “meta-universe” that he says is the future of the Internet, after computers and mobile phones, to which people will have access to interact. work or be entertained through technology (eg virtual or augmented reality glasses or helmets).
Critics of Facebook commented that the name change is a distraction, at a time when the giant is plagued by scandals and allegations of misinformation, confidentiality of users' data and respect for competition. The company “believes a new brand can help change the subject,” a non-governmental organization, the Facebook Real Supervisory Board, said last week, while rumors of a name change were still circulating.
However, Zuckerberg has been talking about metaverse for a few months now and has already announced multi-billion dollar investments and the hiring of 10,000 workers in Europe to implement this plan.
