When Zuckerberg started Facebook in the dorms of Harvard, he was a computer science student who was very interested in social issues like privacy and social movements.
He and his friends used it to keep track of one another, but within a few years it became a tool of mass consumerism and media manipulation, and it attracted the attention of the political and media establishment.
The result is the social network we all know today, which now serves to create and distribute images of and about what people want to be.
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said, “We are in the business of capturing and distributing human attention.”

Facebook’s Name Has Changed, But Not Its Principles

Whether or not Facebook changed its name from Facebook Inc. to Meta, the principles and goal remained the same.

The name change is an attempt to disassociate the firm from the negative attention it has received as a result of the recent leak of the “Facebook documents.”

But, even before that, individuals have recently grown increasingly conscious of Facebook’s harmful influence on them.

Attempting to conceal the fact that rebranding a company is essentially a strategy to prevent unfavorable press. Their justification is that the new Meta name “metaverse”, which is related to their virtual reality vision of the future as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.

Facebook (FB) will be renamed as Meta on December 1, 2022. (MVRS). The name change was announced during the Facebook Connect Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference. The names of the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp apps will not change.