14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook has won the infamous title of the “Worst Company of the Year” in a poll conducted by Yahoo Finance, as users out there still seem to be very disappointed with the social network these days.
The Meta rebranding clearly didn’t work, and a few people believe it was an interesting idea, many more describe it as a failure to move the attention to something else.
Those who voted Facebook the worst company of the year didn’t just pick a reason for the whole thing but named many more causes that the social network somehow fails to address. Including its impact on young users, that is, as voters don’t think Facebook is doing anything important to improve on this front.
There’s so much the company can do in order to improve its image, and it could all start with a simple “I’m sorry.” Many of the 1,541 voters believe Facebook should just donate part of its profits to an organization that could help deal with the damage caused by the social network in the first place.
Facebook wants to just “bring people together,” the founder says
When announcing the new Meta brand, founder Mark Zuckerberg, said the company’s primary objective is to bring people together.
“Our mission remains the same — it’s still about bringing people together. Our apps and their brands aren’t changing either. We’re still the company that designs technology around people,” he said.
“But all of our products, including our apps, now share a new vision: to help bring the metaverse to life. And now we have a name that reflects the breadth of what we do.”
The poll, however, shows not too many people are buying this, so it’ll be interesting how Meta manages to improve its image next year, especially as this transformation is supposed to gain more traction.