In recent months, there has been an increase in scrutiny regarding the impact of the company on people, and on teens in particular. “Building our social media apps will always be an important focus for us but right now our entire brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future,” the CEO said. The names of the apps that we build-Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp-will remain the same.- Meta October 28, 2021Īccording to Zuckerberg, Facebook no longer encompasses everything the company does and wants to do. The company would like to move forward in building the next chapter, but Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp are not changing their names to Meta.

“Today we are seen as a social media company, but in our DNA we are a company that builds technology to connect people, and the metaverse is the next frontier just like social networking was when we got started,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.īut what about the universe we live in? Will the names of the platforms we use on a daily basis change? Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp In a press release put out by the company, Meta described how the Metaverse which will be launched later this year, will allow users “to do almost anything you can imagine new experiences that don’t really fit how we think about computers or phones today.” ywSJPLsCoD- Meta October 28, 2021Īs other social media platforms like TikTok, have begun to occupy a larger share of the social media landscape, Facebook has felt the pressure to innovate. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D.

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