Facebook Rebranding
 

allegedly and next week

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...rebrand-report

The social media side of it may not change but will have to wait and see.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

Sounds like it’s the parent company that’s changing

They will still be one to avoid!!

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

There's an old saying, you can't rebrand a t*rd. Why anyone wants to share ever bit of their personal life with everybody is still beyond me. It seems to cause a lot of distress/boredom to one and all.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

It's not all bad - I use it regularly to keep up to date with what's going on in my local area. I don't put my details up for anyone to look at and I don't discuss anything personal to me on there.

Like you, I do not understand why some people want to flaunt all their personal stuff on Facebook - that is a dangerous thing to do. There are some pretty vile people out there only too willing to exploit anyone who is free and easy with information about themselves.

While Facebook is rebranding, I hope they make their site a bit easier to use. I still have to scratch my head a bit sometimes when I want to use some of the tools on their site.

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Let’s face it there are loads of tools on that site. ;)

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

:D

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I use it to keep in touch with family and people I like. I must just start culling a few other pages though or it’s likely to get out of hand.

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you could always write, text, call, visit. No need to be allowing Facebook et al. to harvest from you.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

I have an Oculus Quest 2 so need a facebook account but have one just for that. I also use facebook as a normal user but no real data on there for them to harvest. Lets face it pretty much everything about us can be found or bought if you want it anyway

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

New name: "ONLYbans".

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Not the way the youngsters move address in my family.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

Meta is the new name all to do with the new Meta Verse the new future direction for the company

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

Whatever they call it it will still be called Facebook for years to come.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

It’s just like the Google rebranding to Alphabet - it’s the Parent/Holding company that’s rebranded, not the actual search/social media company/brand.

Facebook will still be Facebook.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

google should have been called goggol

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One thing I never understand with some people. Why they change number so much.

I can understand if you are trying to get someone bad out of your life (e.g. to prevent an ex contacting you), or if you are into something dodgy, but some of my friends have had several numbers now, and none of them have dodgy ex's, or are into any dodgy stuff. In fact one I can think of very definitely has a dodgy ex, and she hasn't changed her number.

I've had mobiles since about 1997. I'm on my second number. The only reason I'm on my second is because I was stupid enough to believe a friend when he said he had an easier way for me to keep my number when switching networks and it failed spectacularly, losing me the original number. In his, and my, defence, this was back in about 2002, when it wasn't as easy to port your number.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

People didnt care so much about their number changing in the early days of mobile.

In the UK, Mobile Number Porting has only been available since 2003.
All my immediate family have all had their current numbers since around 2007.
My wife is the only one of us who has only ever had one number (hers dates from around 2004).

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

First Mobile Number Porting was in 1999 (I know this because I worked at Ventura at the time, and we set up and handled the process for BT Cellnet (as was) - I was in charge of the team who set up the infrastructure (at the Wath-On-Dearne offices, or as we called it, Death-on-Warne…)).

It was a very ‘hands-on" manual process, involving Customer Service Reps taking the requests from the customers over the phone, logging them onto a system, then printing off those details and faxing them to BT Cellnet.

When I left Ventura to join BT Cellnet, I took my work number with me and transferred it to my wife (as it was an easily remembered number, ending in 3333), so she has had the same number for over 21 years, and I kept the number I had at BT Cellnet when I left (again, because it was a "Gold" number, easily remembered), so have had the same number over 21 years.

Even why I had work phones (which I did all the time), I kept a personal account for continuity of family/friends contacts.

Re: Facebook Rebranding
 

I was referring to the current system, using PAC codes, not any previous manual system, which was generally unknown to the masses. :)