Facebook Quiz: Super Meta Questions (2024)

Meta (formerly known as Facebook) tossed another social media player into the ring on July 6, 2023. This contender, named ‘Threads,’ is a text-based conversation app. It’s like Twitter but with a Zuck instead of a Musk. Users can conveniently use their existing Instagram login details to sign up. Threads became an overnight sensation, attracting over 100 million users only days after its launch.

Over 3.5 billion people worldwide use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp – all of which were inaccessible for over five hours on Oct. 4, 2021. Facebook is also used to sign in to many other apps and services, making users unable to log in to other websites or sign in to their smart TVs.

What caused the 2021 Facebook outage?

Facebook said the 2021 outage was caused by changes to its underlying internet infrastructure that coordinates the traffic between its data centers, “bringing our services to a halt.”

When was Facebook’s previous outage?

Facebook’s last significant outage was in 2019, when a technical error affected its sites for 24 hours.

Facebook parent company Meta owns Whatsapp and is in court against Israeli NSO for misuse of the app.

Meta Platforms Inc, the owner of Facebook, plans to open its first physical store on May 9, 2022. The store will sell virtual reality headsets and video conferencing devices, including Ray-Ban smart glasses, Portal video-calling devices, and Oculus VR headsets. The store can be found in the Silicon Valley town of Burlingame, at the main campus of Meta’s Reality Labs division.

On Oct. 11, 2022, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, introduced the Meta Quest Pro VR headset. A high-resolution sensor in the headset lets users see mixed virtual and augmented reality in full color, and a “natural facial expressions” tracking system mimics the wearer’s movement. The headset costs $1,500. Meta also announced that its metaverse avatars would soon have legs.

Simply put, Metaverse is a collection of Virtual 3D meeting spaces. It’s been one of the most prominent tech buzz terms of 2021. Epic Games directed fundraising to build Fortnite into a metaverse; Microsoft presented Mesh, a mixed reality software enabling virtual presence through Microsoft devices. South Korea announced the creation of a national metaverse alliance to build a unified national VR and AR platform.

What’s Facebook’s Metaverse?

In 2021 Facebook announced it attempts to develop a Metaverse. On Oct. 18, Facebook announced plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years to help build the virtual environment. US tech news website The Verge broke the news that Facebook’s founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, is preparing to change the name of the company at the company’s annual Connect conference on Oct. 28, 2021, to match its new ambitions. The new name chosen for the company is Meta.

Instagram has introduced a series of new features aimed at enhancing the safety of its younger users, particularly to combat sexual extortion. One significant feature is the automatic blurring of images that contain nudity in direct messages. This tool protects recipients from unsolicited explicit content. It is part of a broader effort by Instagram to implement protective measures that encourage responsible behavior among senders. The feature will be enabled by default for users under 18, with adults receiving a prompt to activate it for their accounts.

The “Disinformation Dozen” are 12 anti-vaxxers responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content on social media.

Is Facebook in trouble?

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen presented documents that show the social media platform has built a system that exempts high-profile users from some or all of its rules. On Wednesday, Oct. 13, the attorneys general of 14 U.S. states sent a letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. They said they are “extremely concerned” with the recent reports and want to know if the “Disinformation Dozen” are among those receiving special attention treatment from the company.

Revisit Mr. Zuckerberg’s testimony at the congress in 2020.

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984. Elon Musk was born 13 years earlier, on June 28, 1971. Zuckerberg shared a photo of him training with UFC stars Israel Adesanya and Alex Volkanvski at his home in Northern California on July 11, 2023. Musk has been taunting Zuckerberg on social media and said he would donate $1 billion to charity if Zuckerberg wins a UFC-style cage fight against him.