# Let's help pick Facebook's new name! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955 "2021-10-21T23:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/1 "2021-10-21T23:56:00Z")
> **[Facebook is planning to change its name, report says | CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/tech/facebook-name-change/index.html)** > > Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name focused on the metaverse, the Verge reported on Tuesday, as the tech giant comes under fire from regulators around the world over its business practices. Any suggestions? > **[Facebook, don't change your name -- change your CEO | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/opinions/facebook-name-change-ceo-zuckerberg-alaimo/index.html)** > > Facebook's reported move to change its name is a smart PR move, says Kara Alaimo, but won't get to the root of the problem -- the company's bankrupt reputation -- or magically create a brand in which consumers will place blind faith. Replacing Mark... _For a name_, I mean… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/2 "2021-10-21T23:56:57Z")
Sociopath’s Playground. Scumbag owner’s folly Garbageville Suckers got played ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/3 "2021-10-21T23:59:48Z")
Basefook ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/4 "2021-10-22T00:04:53Z")
Faux. (the fullstop/period is because Discourse won’t accept a 4 character post) ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/5 "2021-10-22T00:11:01Z")
Do they think it will work. Will people somehow not know it’s facebook because it has a different name? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/6 "2021-10-22T00:14:13Z")
“People have finally started to realize that we’re manipulating them and enabling disinformation, all for higher profits. What do we do?” “Ummm, how about change our policies, and start behaving responsibly?” “No, no…wait! I have it! Let’s change our name!” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/7 "2021-10-22T00:15:14Z")
Oddly enough that was the exact conversation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/8 "2021-10-22T00:16:35Z")
Mos Eisley. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy . ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/9 "2021-10-22T00:18:05Z")
Lifeinvader “Your source for bullshit memes masquerading as facts!” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/10 "2021-10-22T00:22:18Z")
FacePalm ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/11 "2021-10-22T00:28:33Z")
LifeChats Me, you, but really me (insert \_ but, since no one wants to admit that…) I actually like FB. I’m not very social so I determine how much I see. But … I do hate FB’s allorhythmia uh algorerhythm oh! algorithm when … decades ago, I saw _all_ my friends’ posts even if it took an hour or Bot to scroll through. Capping friends at 5,000 was ok. Not seeing my friends’ posts over group posts vs… lots of ads… that sucked. Especially back when I was paying to play Zynga games (or other FB based games). Don’t want my paltry money? ($5, 10, 20 bucks here and there and then subscriptions? Bite me, I went to Sims 😃 At least I own most of the Sims … and their expansion packs!. Much like I “own” my Nintendo stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/12 "2021-10-22T00:32:40Z")
[Malebolge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malebolge) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/13 "2021-10-22T00:36:03Z")
Some suggestions from Stephen Colbert: “Pinsurrectionist” “DikTok” “Aunt Brenda’s Three-Paragraph Rant-a-torium” “Best Fun Times America Website” “The Washington Football Team” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/14 "2021-10-22T00:41:05Z")
I’ll offer up a name I wanted to use for a literary magazine back in college: Meconium. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/15 "2021-10-22T02:08:07Z")
Sanforum ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/16 "2021-10-22T02:15:19Z")
FactBonk FakeNook > [@74westy](#): > > Do they think it will work. Will people somehow not know it’s facebook because it has a different name? The app isn’t changing, nor the part of the company running the app. Only the parent company (cf Alphabet/Google). ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/17 "2021-10-22T02:44:26Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Do they think it will work. Will people somehow not know it’s facebook because it has a different name? It worked for Philip Morris =\> Altria. Actually, Facebook should buy some traditional blue-chip, non-social media associated company—General Electric can be had for pennies on the dollar—make itself a “subsidiary”, and use that status and business diversity to insulate itself from Congressional investigation. What the public thinks of it is irrelevant; it just needs enough traditional “corporate personhood” and be included in major indexes such that no Congressional investigation panel will dig too far. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/18 "2021-10-22T03:04:24Z")
I’ve been thinking about this for a few hours and it occurs to me that the word ‘Face’ has the exact same number of letters as the word ‘Fart’. There may be an idea there but I’m very tired. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/19 "2021-10-22T03:06:03Z")
PuterSpace Like Outer Space but the O is a P. It’s a space for people with ‘puters of all sorts. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/20 "2021-10-22T03:30:59Z")
Cyberspace’s Book O’Faces Fisty McPedophile’s Internet Sewer 2Face 2Book Facebook 2: The Legend of Curly’s Gold Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Zuck’s) Geoff [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955.md?page=2)