{"id":129647,"date":"2021-10-28T14:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/facebook-changes-its-corporate-branding-to-meta"},"modified":"2021-10-28T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:25:02","slug":"facebook-changes-its-corporate-branding-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/facebook-changes-its-corporate-branding-to-meta","title":{"rendered":"Facebook changes its corporate branding to Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-changes-its-corporate-branding-to-meta2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s official. After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus has a new name.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s corporate entity is now **Meta**.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg announced the change at the company\u2019s AR\/VR-focused Connect event, sharing that the new title captured more of the company\u2019s core ambition: to build the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo reflect who we are and what we hope to build, I am proud to announce that starting today, our company is now Meta. Our mission remains the same \u2014 it\u2019s still about bringing people together. Our apps and our brands \u2014 they\u2019re not changing either,\u201d **Zuckerberg **said. \u201cFrom now on, we\u2019re going to be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s official. After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus has a new name. Facebook\u2019s corporate entity is now **Meta**. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg announced the change at the company\u2019s AR\/VR-focused Connect event, sharing that the new title captured more of the company\u2019s core [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}