[sebzim4500]

> I think almost everybody thought renaming Facebook to Meta was a bad idea

Do they? Why?

I don't see how it did any harm, and people are way more willing to admit an association with Meta than with Facebook.

[PaulHoule]

When it first happened I thought they were trying to evade Facebook’s bad reputation for privacy and politics and made a point to keep calling it Facebook.

After about a year “Meta” had the same stink of death around it as NFTs and I figured I’d be doing it no favor by calling it by its preferred name.

[tehbeard]

I thought 'Meta' was the same shuffle Google did with 'Alphabet', some of financial / legal shenanigans..

Though speaking of while trawling the wiki page on Alphabet....

> X (formerly Google X) is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010.