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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.

The Twitter brand was the most valuable part of that company. If Musk is dumb enough to throw that away, I will GLADLY call it “X.”

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

I still think of Facebook as The Facebook from when its website used to be thefacebook.com.

TruthX. It brings it more in line with SpaceX and model X, and also tells what it's turning into.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

I maintain that everyone on The Office except Dwight was basically an absolute pile of shit.

You're dunking on a fictional character over a one-liner joke. Jesus, people work themselves into a lather.

Jim is a dick in most of the office

He thinks he’s better than everyone he works with and really only treats people decently when he wants something

I love the Office and will say Jim is just a dick in general.

I posted a whole rant about this before I saw your comment. Suffice to say, I entirely agree. It's one of his worst moments. What an asshole.

You forgot option #3: Think it's some porn site.

I never used twitter but when I saw some site named X my first thoughts were "Why is a porn site suddenly so popular?"

thats the name of his daughter with claire (grimes) too lol

But... WHY would you call it that?

Well, this just adds to the list of how he ruined twitter.

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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.

My guess is that Kalcifer sounds cooler than their birth name? I think it sounds cool at least.

They might be trans and this is their first foray into explaining how they want to identify. Autism and gender issue have a huge co-diagnosis.

I'm a millennial and changed my name. I don't know why your relative wants to be called something new. There are thousands of possible reasons. You could ask them directly. If they're autistic, there's a very good chance they'll be happy to tell you their thought process in direct and concrete terms. You could also attempt to compromise by calling them "Cal" which is a more normal name. Denying them without understanding is pretty much the worst move >_>

They played too much WoW.

No, but seriously, calling people whatever they like is OK. As another Millenial, at least in my corner, we all had some kind of nicks and they came to real life. I have a lot of friends who still go by their nicknames from decades ago. I also changed my own name a little and am currently almost exclusively known by that name. I don't go around telling people why but my name is connected to trauma quite strongly. I can even go further in my family history to have an example of how people have been doing that always. My grandma was called by two names. She moved to the city and decided to go by another name. I was a little bit confused as a kid when my great-aunt called and asked her by a name I had never heard before. I might understand not calling someone something offensive, but Kalcifer is quite mild. In the end, it doesn't hurt anyone and is a tool for building your identity.