A Facebook Name Change Is Coming & The Internet Didn't Hold Back With Its Suggestions

We've all thought about it. You've had a bad few weeks, something embarrassing just happened at work, you keep running into your ex and you really can't deal with being where you are.

So what if you just changed your name and moved somewhere else?

Facebook is reportedly thinking about doing something like that, after years of being called creepy, manipulative and bad for democracy.

Facebook Inc., the company, will reportedly change its name by Oct. 28, according to a new report in The Verge.

The Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook apps will reportedly keep their names, but the company that owns them will be called something else, although it hasn't said anything about it to date.

So the next time Facebook and Instagram go down, there's be a new name to blame for the outage.

Mark Zuckerberg and co haven't shared the details of the new name, but The Verge reports that it'll be chosen with the "metaverse" in mind.

And no, that's not a thing from a Marvel movie. It's a Silicon Valley idea about living our lives in virtual or augmented reality.

"Our next chapter is to transition from being a social media company to a metaverse company," Zuckerberg wrote back in July.

The Verge suggests that Facebook's new name might have "Horizon" in it, although that hasn't been confirmed.

Internet users had their own suggestions for the new name this week, and they did not hold back.

They already do something like this over at Google, which is actually run by a conglomerate called Alphabet. Google is just one of several companies under that umbrella, along with others such as Fitbit and Waymo.

Expect Zuckerberg to make the big announcement at a company event next Thursday.