{"id":21855,"date":"2025-01-28T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/facebook-just-got-renamed-with-a-big-gaming-reference-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:42:32","slug":"facebook-just-got-renamed-with-a-big-gaming-reference-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/facebook-just-got-renamed-with-a-big-gaming-reference-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook just got renamed with a big gaming reference &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook just got renamed with a big gaming reference pixabayFacebook has officially changed its name to a word gamers will know all too well \u2013 Meta. The biggest social platform in the world has a number of major brands under its umbrella, including Instagram, Whatsapp, and more. Moving forward, however, the company will operate under a new name with a big vision. On October 28, Facebook revealed that the new name is Meta. Facebook renamed to Meta BREAKING: Facebook&#8217;s new name is Meta https:\/\/t.co\/9oFyRT3EIr https:\/\/t.co\/FfrFVQFpOy pic.twitter.com\/9OUREvCyqX \u2014 Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 28, 2021 Of course, this is a massively popular reference in the world of gaming. Each game has its own meta, which is ultimately the best or most effective way to play. After months of massive investment in their own Facebook Gaming brand, acquiring many Twitch streamers on exclusive streaming deals, this is potentially another move by Mark Zuckerberg to appeal to gamers worldwide. Alternatively, it could be a coincidence. Mark Zuckerberg on \u2018future vision\u2019 \u201cWe live for what we\u2019re building,\u201d Zuckerberg added. \u201cAnd while we make mistakes, we keep learning and building and moving forward.\u201d It\u2019s understood that the social media platform, Facebook, will keep its original name and the change \u2013 much like Google and Alphabet in the past \u2013 affects the owning company at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook just got renamed with a big gaming reference pixabayFacebook has officially changed its name to a word gamers will know all too well \u2013 Meta. The biggest social platform in the world has a number of major brands under its umbrella, including Instagram, Whatsapp, and more. Moving forward, however, the company will operate under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}