Facebook will change the current name as early as next week in order to reflect its goals in building the metaverse. According to The Verge, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will talk about it at the company's annual Connect conference on October 28. But all indications are that the reveal may occur sooner.

Until then, it is known that the world's largest social network wants to be better known for more than social media and all the ills that entails. One possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the yet-to-be-released VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently changed to Horizon Worlds, shortly after Facebook made a workplace collaboration version called Horizon Workrooms.

This rebrandig should illustrate Facebook's supremacy over many of its by-products as one such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus among others.

Technology companies seem to tend to change names as their ambitions move toward new horizons. Recall that in 2015 Google, announced that it was no longer simply a search engine, but a conglomerate of technology companies making autonomous cars and health technology, and is now the holding company Alphabet. And Snapchat rebranded itself to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a "camera company" and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.