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What if Meta Is Cool? 🤔

What if Meta Is Cool? 🤔
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Facebook rebranded as Meta on Thursday, and Twitter exploded with jokes about the company metastasizing, copying Metta World Peace, and, uh, not being a haunted well.  

One brave man stood out from the pack, though: Former TechCrunch editor Josh Constine. He was into it. 

Meta’s silver lining‍

In a threaded tweet, Constine added:

Facebook has always been shrewd with naming, claiming whole concepts by using simple names: Groups, Pages, News Feed, Messenger... Meta similarly colonizes the entire metaverse, making you think of it anytime you discuss the medium

So, two silver linings of Meta:

  • “Metaverse” now brings Facebook — sorry, Meta — to mind.
  • It’s a prefix, so it tacks easily on the front of product names.

Other potential pros we brainstormed:

  • It’s short and sweet.
  • It’s crisis PR, since it comes in the middle of a whistleblower scandal — and it’s working.
  • It gives Facebook a clean slate with the (many!) users who haven’t followed its naming saga.

Our takeaway?

Meta is crisp, concise and makes Facebook synonymous with the metaverse.

And it’s goofy AF. Many things can be true!

Mae RiceMae Rice
Mae Rice is editor in chief at MarketerHire. A long-time content marketer, she loves learning about the weird and wonderful feedback loops that connect marketing and culture.
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What if Meta Is Cool? 🤔

September 8, 2023
November 2, 2021
Mae Rice

Every other tweet last week poked fun at Facebook’s new name — but one brave tweeter noticed some silver linings. Let’s examine the two main ones he found, and a few others we brainstormed at MarketerHire.

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This is an excerpt from MarketerHire's weekly newsletter, Raisin Bread. To get a tasty marketing snack in your inbox every week, subscribe here.

Facebook rebranded as Meta on Thursday, and Twitter exploded with jokes about the company metastasizing, copying Metta World Peace, and, uh, not being a haunted well.  

One brave man stood out from the pack, though: Former TechCrunch editor Josh Constine. He was into it. 

Meta’s silver lining‍

In a threaded tweet, Constine added:

Facebook has always been shrewd with naming, claiming whole concepts by using simple names: Groups, Pages, News Feed, Messenger... Meta similarly colonizes the entire metaverse, making you think of it anytime you discuss the medium

So, two silver linings of Meta:

  • “Metaverse” now brings Facebook — sorry, Meta — to mind.
  • It’s a prefix, so it tacks easily on the front of product names.

Other potential pros we brainstormed:

  • It’s short and sweet.
  • It’s crisis PR, since it comes in the middle of a whistleblower scandal — and it’s working.
  • It gives Facebook a clean slate with the (many!) users who haven’t followed its naming saga.

Our takeaway?

Meta is crisp, concise and makes Facebook synonymous with the metaverse.

And it’s goofy AF. Many things can be true!

Mae Rice
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Mae Rice is editor in chief at MarketerHire. A long-time content marketer, she loves learning about the weird and wonderful feedback loops that connect marketing and culture.

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