Name change rumors swirl with Twitterati Imagine ‘new’ Facebook memes

Is Facebook Inc going to change its name next week? According to a report in The Verge, the social media platform’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to speak about the name change decision at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28. The naming comes at a time when Facebook is facing increasing criticism over its business practices. According to the report, the rebranding will reflect Facebook’s focus on building a metaverse, an online world where people can use tools to move and communicate in virtual environments.

The news of the social media giant’s rebranding was greeted with hilarious reactions and memes on social media.

Earlier this month in a major internet ‘catastrophe’ of global proportion, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, all owned by the former, suffered a major outage for the longest period of over 6 hours. In a statement provided by Facebook, it said that ‘our engineering teams have learned that this communication was interrupted due to a configuration change on the Backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers.’