The headlines of many news articles reported that the founder of Facebook was rebranding the social network. Some users decided that they would have to get used to the new META name. We checked whether the social network was really renamed.
In the evening of October 28 and 29, 2021, the entire world press wrote that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a presentation about the new META name, as well as the construction of Metavselnaya. Runet did not lag behind. Headlines "Gazeta.ru" And "Izvestia" read: Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta, Title "Moscow Komsomolets" “Why does Facebook change the name to Meta.” And the "secret of the company" It turned out The most laconic: "Zuckerberg renamed Facebook." Some media and text news Reportedthat Mark Zuckerberg announced the renaming of the social network.
It should be noted that most of the large media still came out with the correct headlines that make it difficult to confuse and incorrect understanding. For example, Meduza: "Facebook will change the name to Meta." Or TASS: "Facebook has changed its name to Meta."
What confusion can we talk about here? The fact is that the social network Facebook is, although the flagship, but only one of products A company that until recently was called Facebook Inc. In addition to her, the corporation owns the Instagram photo service, the WhatsApp messenger, as well as a number of other brands and services. So, rebranding touched Only a maternal company, a legal entity. And the names of the products, including the social networks Facebook, Remained unchanged.
Most likely, ordinary users will not need to get used to anything. It is unlikely that most users of the Google Internet search engine know the name of Alphabet Inc. belongs. At the same time, the same holding belongs to a number of companies and products, including YouTube. Previously, the entire maternal company was called the flagship service Google Inc. We can say that Tsuckerberg simply repeated the path of senior fellow-competing colleagues in the Internet industry Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Thus, it remains to conclude that a significant part of the world audience was misled by the ambiguous headings of many media, as well as incorrect information in some of them. The name of the social network Facebook remains the same, and only the company that owns it was renamed.
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