Facebook will change its name for the first time since the company was founded

On the eve of Facebook held an online event - Oculus Connect 2021. As part of it, many interesting announcements were made,

the main one was definitely the news about the renaming of the company itself. Discuss

Now the IT giant will not be called Facebook, as before, but Meta. The head of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, himself told about this.

Our brand is closely related to the social network Facebook, but we are no longer the only one. It's time to choose a new brand for everything we do and what we do. From today on, our company is called Meta.

Mark Zuckerberg

Thus, the corporation directly shows that it is serious about creating its own metauniverse, which its head was thinking about earlier.

It is reported that Meta will include both the Facebook social network itself and its other projects: Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus.

Source: Facebook