# 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:** 3
### Author: ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0) #### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/41 "2021-10-22T23:20:54Z")
I heard that they were going to incorporate Twitter and YouTube on Facebook as well. Then they can call it YouTwitFace. ---
### Author: ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/42 "2021-10-23T00:11:07Z")
I’ve always just called it Facecock. Snarler 16 chan ---
### Author: ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/43 "2021-10-23T00:29:11Z")
Or how about a nice comforting name like Big Brother. ---
### Author: ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/44 "2021-10-23T03:19:57Z")
MY rEseArcH ---
### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/45 "2021-10-23T20:01:22Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What is the point in changing the name? Despite the jokes here, this would be more of a restructuring than a rebranding. The idea would be to be able to separate Facebook from all the other properties that they own. It’s more a legal move that allows things Facebook does not to harm other brands. Changing public prerception isn’t that much of a goal. How many people think Google doesn’t own YouTube? They technically don’t: YouTube, like Google, is a sub company aof Alphabet. That, BTW, is why I keep hoping for a pun based on Alphabet. I can’t think of one myself. ---
### Author: ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/46 "2021-10-23T20:13:39Z")
Bankruptcybook. Morally, ethically and financially. ---
### Author: ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/47 "2021-10-23T20:17:41Z")
**BGK** , where instead of the KGB investigating you and recording your data, you reverse the process and just give it all up to an intelligence agency _voluntarily_! Tripler In Russia, Zuckerberg already has you. ---
### Author: ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/48 "2021-10-23T20:18:00Z")
Many of you are overthinking it. Simple new name: Assbook. Logo can be a stylized “A”, but done in a way that suggests a crack. ---
### Author: ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id) #### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/49 "2021-10-23T20:56:21Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Logo can be a stylized “A”, but done in a way that suggests a crack Sure, like [AxCx’s](https://www.google.com/search?q=anal+cunt%27s+logo&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA835CA835&sxsrf=AOaemvLSJHCOpfKYjLP3xBTpEq7drrLwOQ:1635022534318&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif7-3KteHzAhU3HTQIHdoPCxYQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=831&bih=505&dpr=1.56) logo. Fine. ---
### Author: ![WhyWhyWhy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whywhywhy/32/7539_2.png) [@WhyWhyWhy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyWhyWhy) #### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/50 "2021-10-24T06:23:22Z")
flakeBake fakeTake hatestake ---
### Author: ![Wincerind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@Wincerind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wincerind) #### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/51 "2021-10-24T11:30:30Z")
FactsNot ---
### Author: ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat) #### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/52 "2021-10-24T12:50:45Z")
If you’ve got a new product and all indications are that it’s revolutionary and it’s going to take off like a rocket once it hits the open market, you might consider rebranding the whole company for it. But changing your name for a product that haven’t even built yet and don’t know will get positive reception? Hard to believe that this isn’t just an attempt to move away from the recent bad press. For a rare exception, I don’t think it’s going to help much. ---
### Author: ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby) #### Post date: [October 26, 2021, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/53 "2021-10-26T06:12:36Z")
They could literally call it ‘YouKnowYouPeopleAreFuckingStupidForUsingThisShitDontYou’ and they wouldn’t lose a single customer. ---
### 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 26, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/54 "2021-10-26T12:04:47Z")
Facebutt ---
### Author: ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer) #### Post date: [October 26, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/55 "2021-10-26T12:11:17Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > But changing your name for a product that haven’t even built yet and don’t know will get positive reception? > > Hard to believe that this isn’t just an attempt to move away from the recent bad press. For a rare exception, I don’t think it’s going to help much. Sounds like they’re trying to get into this metaverse thing: [Facebook’s Name Change Plan Reflects Its Real Priorities](https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/10/20/22737168/facebook-name-change-metaverse-zuckerberg-frances-haugen-whistleblower) Link goes to [vox.com](http://vox.com) article. ---
### 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 26, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/56 "2021-10-26T12:12:08Z")
Facekenstein. ---
### Author: ![cytop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cytop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cytop) #### Post date: [October 28, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/57 "2021-10-28T18:37:33Z")
It’s all been settled… > **[Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59083601)** > > The social media giant says the new name will better encompass what it does. ---
### 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 28, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/58 "2021-10-28T19:29:43Z")
With a nod to making sure that no one thinks that corporate America isn’t a soulless, unimaginative wasteland, devoid of character and nuance but embracing ambition (and profits): Meta. > **[In the middle of a crisis, Facebook Inc. renames itself Meta](https://apnews.com/article/facebook-meta-mark-zuckerberg-technology-business-5ad543ab7780caae435935f0aca9fac6)** > > OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Like many companies in trouble before it, Facebook is changing its name and logo. Facebook Inc. is now called Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta for short, to reflect what CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday is its commitment to... I know **cytop** got here first with the news, but I had that sentence composed in my head and thought it was good enough that it needed to be posted anyway. 😛 ---
### 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 28, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/59 "2021-10-28T19:38:34Z")
I never Meta less imaginative rebranding. ---
### 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 28, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-help-pick-facebooks-new-name/952955/60 "2021-10-28T19:44:17Z")
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