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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone else thinks it's funny that journalist always have to explain/describe what Meta is? Be it the parent company of Facebook, Whatsapp or Instagram.

[–] GizmoLion@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm glad they do. Meta's name change shouldn't free them from the reputation they earned with facebook. Pin the old name to them whenever possible.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just call them Facebook, like everyone and their mother still calls Google Google. Fuck them thinking they can steal other people's name and sue them for it.

[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What if Zuck comes out of his lizard hole and utters the word:

FEDIVERSE.

to proclaim that Meta, formally known as Facebook, is now changing their name to Fedi.

[–] NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Funny, I make an effort to call them DoubleClick. We should remember the name of the malicious ad agency, not the indexed search engine.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Never forget that Xfinity is just Comcast. Comcast is Xfinity. Comcast and Xfinity are the same thing.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think anyone but Google itself takes the name "Alphabet" seriously, either.

[–] GizmoLion@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alphabet owns Google, Google isn't alphabet per se.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google is Alphabet. It was created by restructuring its companies under one umbrella company.

[–] GizmoLion@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

So what you're saying is that Alphabet became the parent company, and owns its subsidiary Google, and that Google isn't Alphabet itself per se.

Thanks for the insight.

[–] blake@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It really only gets used legally.