The Facebook logo has been changed at the headquarters in Silicon Valley. The company explained that the “symbol was designed to dynamically live in the metaverse - where you can move through it and around it.” Meta has unveiled a new logo, which is the infinity symbol. The goal is to have 1 billion people join this virtual world - known as Metaverse - in the next ten years. However, there might never be a perfect time to look towards the future. Zuckerberg responded to this public debate by saying that there are important issues to focus on in the present. The outage seems to have begun at around 5:30 pm UK. You are not alone the social media giant Facebook along with its subsidiaries including Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR are down and suffering ongoing service disruption. In recent months, there has been an increase in scrutiny regarding the impact of the company on people, and on teens in particular. Yes, Facebook is down along with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR due to DNS-related issues. “Building our social media apps will always be an important focus for us but right now our entire brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future,” the CEO said. The names of the apps that we build-Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp-will remain the same.- Meta October 28, 2021Īccording to Zuckerberg, Facebook no longer encompasses everything the company does and wants to do. The company would like to move forward in building the next chapter, but Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp are not changing their names to Meta. “Today we are seen as a social media company, but in our DNA we are a company that builds technology to connect people, and the metaverse is the next frontier just like social networking was when we got started,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.īut what about the universe we live in? Will the names of the platforms we use on a daily basis change? Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp In a press release put out by the company, Meta described how the Metaverse which will be launched later this year, will allow users “to do almost anything you can imagine new experiences that don’t really fit how we think about computers or phones today.” ywSJPLsCoD- Meta October 28, 2021Īs other social media platforms like TikTok, have begun to occupy a larger share of the social media landscape, Facebook has felt the pressure to innovate. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. One tweeted how everyone goes to Twitter make sure it is not just them whose Instagram is malfunctioning.Announcing - the Facebook company’s new name. Of course, social networkers had fun-well, as much fun as they can have when their favorite apps are down-Wednesday by migrating to Twitter and making #instagramdown a trending hashtag. And fallout continues from the leaked documents provided by whistleblower Frances Haugen about harms caused by Facebook and Instagram and the company's failure to take action. The incident comes less than a week after CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed the parent company's name to Meta as a pivot toward the metaverse. It was just a month ago that the company had one of the longest outages in its history with Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp being down for about six hours. We know people and businesses depend on our services around the world and we're sorry for any disruption this has caused.'

We fixed the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted. ET, Meta sent a statement to USA TODAY: 'Earlier today, some people may have experienced trouble accessing Workplace Chat, Instagram DMs and Messenger. Most users were unaffected by about 6 p.m. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.'īut the various platforms were back up and operating within a few hours. In a statement to USA TODAY, Meta, Facebook newly named parent company, addressed the situation: 'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing Messenger, Workplace Chat and Instagram DMs. WhatsApp also began reporting problems about the same time, the site shows. Users on Facebook Messenger, along with Facebook and Instagram began reporting outages just after 2 p.m.

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