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New name for Facebook? Critics cry smoke and mirrors

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'Smoke and mirrors'? Got that right! A pig is a pig. Can't give it wings and call it a bird. And I'll flip my bird, pardon the pun, at Facebook's CEO any day until they put him in jail.

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Crap is crap no matter what!

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Let's run a competition for best new name. I can think of a few choice ones.

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Kaerimashita,

I can't think of a name, but how about a tag-line?

"Metaverse, so bad it will make Zuck's hair look sexy by comparison."

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Let's run a competition for best new name.

There's a poll running at the link below.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/facebooks_new_name/

SPECTRE seems to be winning at the moment.

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What are the names being considered? (If this is even true that is.)

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I think the most appropriate name to change to is FAKEBOOK.

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The Verge cited an unnamed source noting the name would reflect Facebook's efforts to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future

Zuck is infatuated with Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash now? Imagining himself as Hiro Protagonist?

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FarceBook is more appropriate!!!

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