What Facebook change of name to Meta Platforms means
In the last few hours, popular social media platform, Facebook, has been trending following the latest announcement of a change of name of the parent company to Meta.
The new name was made public on Wednesday by Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, during the company’s annual Connect conference
While many have misunderstood the details to mean that Facebook would cease to exist and would become Meta, Zuckerberg, in his statement, stressed that the social media platform will still retain the Facebook name; however, the parent company will now be known as Meta.
The reason for the new brand name, according to Zuckerberg, is because the company’s ambitions have moved from just being a social media platform that connects people around the world to an organisation that now inc...