• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      Isn’t Facebook still Facebook? Meta is the parent company that owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, Oculus, Onavo, Beluga, and about 90 other tech companies. They do just like Google, or Alphabet, and buy out every tech startup that has any chance of success to ensure they never have competition.

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      No, I always call it Fuckbook and don’t intend to change that but yea, definitely not Meta!

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    I’m going to call it “eggs”. A tweet is now an “egg” and tweeting is “egging”.

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    I’ve been calling it Xitter, sounds like zitter. Gotta call it something, not the dumb thing he made up.

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    So I have a younger, semi-autistic relative that wants to be called “Kalcifer.” To be it seemed absolutely stupid, and I refused, but I was nice about it. But I’ve heard of other people wanting the same thing. Can someone explain this to a Millennial please?

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      Why not call someone what they want to be called? It ain’t new. Just like it’s polite to ask someone “can I call you x” or “do you prefer x or y” when you start to call someone a nickname or more personal name, someone can ask to be called x, and it’s polite to do so. Names are arbitrary things, but at the same time often deeply meaningful to people.