Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company’s Connect event that the company’s new name will be Meta.

The metaverse is the next evolution of social connection. Our company’s vision is to help bring the metaverse to life, so we are changing our name to reflect our commitment to this future.

“We are a company that builds technology to connect,” Zuckerberg said. “Together, we can finally put people at the center of our technology. And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy.”

“To reflect who we are and what we hope to build,” he added. He said the name Facebook doesn’t fully encompass everything the company does now, and is still closely linked to one product. “But over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company.”

The names of the apps that we build—Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp—will remain the same.

The metaverse is the next evolution of social connection. Our company’s vision is to help bring the metaverse to life, so we are changing our name to reflect our commitment to this future.

Facebook revealed its new name: Meta. META vision is to help bring the metaverse to life
Facebook revealed its new name: Meta. META vision is to help bring the metaverse to life