# Let's help pick Facebook's new name! **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955 **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:** 2
### 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, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/21 "2021-10-22T04:21:18Z")
Facin’ 2: Electric Bookaloo ---
### Author: ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/22 "2021-10-22T04:25:16Z")
How about “TRUTH social”? Nobody’s taken that name, right? ---
### Author: ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/23 "2021-10-22T05:14:08Z")
MenusandMore. (I only use it for shit like that) PMmeInstead CovidMisInformationCentral ---
### Author: ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/24 "2021-10-22T05:30:23Z")
Hey, it worked when MySpace changed its name to Facebook, right? 😉 ---
### Author: ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/25 "2021-10-22T10:08:30Z")
Mark’s FU Smirk Sludge Zucker-Glurg Mordor Grifter Plumbing Stone Feet-Log Joceop\* (for every entity’s true love of god, jail our CEO permanently) ---
### Author: ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/26 "2021-10-22T10:44:28Z")
What’s a word that means “random shit by middle-aged people you barely knew in high school and/or college”? ---
### Author: ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/27 "2021-10-22T11:03:05Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > What’s a word that means “random shit by middle-aged people you barely knew in high school and/or college”? [Memberberries](https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Memberberries)? ---
### Author: ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/28 "2021-10-22T12:37:53Z")
“Snopes Exact Opposite” “AFAB - Anything for a buck” (With great apologies to Larry, Darryl, and Darryl.) “Handbasket” (Climb in and guess where you’re going.) ---
### Author: ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/29 "2021-10-22T15:46:55Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > 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. Letterkenny already noticed the same and made … gold? out of it. > **[Fartbook](https://letterkenny.fandom.com/wiki/Fartbook)** > > Fartbook is the third episode of Season 1 of Letterkenny.  Dan’s farting inspires a genius idea for the Hicks: Fartbook You got a bit banged up after work the other day…Wayne The Hicks are sitting around the produce stand. Katy is getting on... ---
### Author: ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/30 "2021-10-22T15:47:58Z")
They’ve bought f\*ckbook and will change both names to Fbook to move smoothly to a common brand. ---
### Author: ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/31 "2021-10-22T16:37:31Z")
Facebook and Instagram should both be combined and rebranded to: ‘_YaBasic_’. ---
### 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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/32 "2021-10-22T16:38:32Z")
![](https://media0.giphy.com/media/l1KdbHUPe27GQsJH2/200.gif) Catchy! ---
### Author: ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/33 "2021-10-22T16:42:25Z")
I think it’s time to throw off the corrupting influence of Sean Parker and return to the original concept. “The Facebook” ---
### 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, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/34 "2021-10-22T16:47:45Z")
Ohio State University already owns “The” so that’s unavailable. Then again Facebook can probably afford to buy it off of them. ---
### Author: ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/35 "2021-10-22T17:35:45Z")
Spybot: Search & Destroy has a ring to it. I wonder if it’s available. ---
### Author: ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/36 "2021-10-22T21:04:31Z")
What is the point in changing the 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, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/37 "2021-10-22T21:05:35Z")
Rebranding! It is slapping paint on a pile of shit to make it seem less shitty. ---
### Author: ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/38 "2021-10-22T21:10:26Z")
George Orwell’s Faceboot. ---
### Author: ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/39 "2021-10-22T21:33:25Z")
I have too many suggestions… Auri Sacra Fames Mar É Cage (marécage being French for swamp) [farcebook](https://schumanchu.eu/html/r1/r1_00104.html) [faecesbook](https://schumanchu.eu/html/r1/r1_00116.html) Arschlochparty FB Mark Z Psychopathia [IDontGiveAZuck!](https://schumanchu.eu/html/r1/r1_00122~dontgiveazuck.html) [InstaBrat](https://schumanchu.eu/html/r1/r1_00131instabrat.html) …and the Zuckhole won’t take any of it! Funny he seems to believe rebranding will save his skin. Perhaps it is not too late for the likes (sic! no pun intended) of McKinsey to ruin him. If anyone can, it’s McKinsey (or PriceWaterhouseCooper or Accenture and such scum. Would be fitting). ---
### Author: ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/40 "2021-10-22T21:55:35Z")
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