Facebook changes its name to Meta as part of a company rebrand

Facebook has today announced that it has changed its company name to Meta. Mark Zuckerberg said the new name, coming from the Greek word for “beyond,” symbolized there was always more to build.

In the statement it said that its mission remains the same — it’s still about bringing people together. And their apps and their brands aren’t changing either. It seems that they will keep the “Facebook” name, but the operating company will become Meta.

The next platform will be even more immersive — an embodied internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it. They call this the metaverse, and it will touch every product they build. The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence — like you are right there with another person or in another place. Feeling truly present with another person is the ultimate dream of social technology.

In the metaverse, you’ll be able to do almost anything you can imagine — get together with friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create — as well as completely new experiences that don’t really fit how we think about computers or phones today. They have made a film that explores how you might use the metaverse one day.

In this future, you will be able to teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents’ living room to catch up. This will open up more opportunity no matter where you live. You’ll be able to spend more time on what matters to you, cut down time in traffic, and reduce your carbon footprint.

Think about how many physical things you have today that could just be holograms in the future. Your TV, your perfect work setup with multiple monitors, your board games and more — instead of physical things assembled in factories, they’ll be holograms designed by creators around the world.

You’ll move across these experiences on different devices — augmented reality glasses to stay present in the physical world, virtual reality to be fully immersed, and phones and computers to jump in from existing platforms. This isn’t about spending more time on screens; it’s about making the time we already spend better.

You can read more about this – https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/founders-letter/

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. pic.twitter.com/ywSJPLsCoD

— Meta (@Meta) October 28, 2021