{"id":14066,"date":"2021-10-21T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2021-12-01T21:59:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:59:36","slug":"social-media-suggests-new-names-for-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/social-media-suggests-new-names-for-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Suggests New Names For Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Speculative suggestions have been circulating on social media following the announcement that Facebook plans to rename itself under a new group name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the announcement, according to the tech website The Verge, means is that a newly named group would act as the parent company for all the company&#8217;s brands, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, ultimately reflecting a focus on virtual and augmented reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the company has refused to comment or announce a new name, various suggestions such as Bookface, Facegram, Facetagram, FreeFace, FreeTalk, World Changer have all popped up on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word &#8220;Meta&#8221; which stands in the way of Facebook&#8217;s desire towards the metaverse showed up among the trending suggestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While several people continue to circulate probable names, others have expressed doubt about the possibility that a name change will affect anything, especially the growing legal battles that continue to weigh on the company&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/enter-zuckerverse-social-media-churns-with-new-names-facebook-2021-10-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculative suggestions have been circulating on social media following the announcement that Facebook plans to rename itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14089,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}