Facebook changes its name to Meta, Mark Zuckerberg announces [TKB Tech]

The social media company Facebook has changed its name. From now on the world will know Facebook as ‘Meta’. Founder Mark Zuckerberg made this announcement during a meeting on Thursday. There was talk of changing the name of Facebook for a long time. Now the same process has been completed and the new name of Facebook has been changed to ‘Meta‘.

Facebook changed its name

Mark Zuckerberg has long wanted to rebrand his social media company. They want to give it a completely different identity, one where Facebook is not seen as just a social media platform. Now moving in the same direction, the name of Facebook has been changed to Meta. The company’s focus is now on creating a metaverse, through which a virtual world can be started where different tools can be used for transfer and communication.

What is the meaning of the new name?

For information, let us tell you that this new name was suggested by Facebook’s former Civic Integrity Chief Samidh Chakraborty. Now that Mark Zuckerberg was already investing heavily in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, it was no big deal for him to rename his company to Meta. Now through this new name, he is not going to limit himself to just one social media platform in front of the whole world.

Now the company has changed its name, apart from this, new employment opportunities have also opened for many people. Facebook is not only rebranding itself, apart from this, it is also preparing to hire about 10 thousand new people. All these people are going to help build a world with the metaverse.

Why did the name have to be changed?

By the way, this big step of changing the name on behalf of the company has been taken at a time when many serious allegations are being made on Facebook. It is being said that the company is not able to keep even the data of its users safe. Recently, when a former Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked some company secret documents, it was revealed that Facebook had placed its own profits above user safety. Mark must have told it a lie, but the company was badly hit.

In such a situation, now that the company has changed its name, Mark Zuckerberg has taken great care of the privacy of the people. In his address, he has said that such safety controls will be needed in the coming times so that no human is allowed to go into other’s space in the world of metaverse.