facebook

plural facebooks

1. A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.

   He had gotten the call from the casino-a client who had recognized them from the facebook-and had flown down to the Bahamas to teach them a lesson.

   2002, Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House

   Synonyms: mug book

2. A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students become acquainted with each other.

   The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.

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   In the last month, since he’d embarked on projects like digitally scanning Melissa Paquette’s face from a freshman facebook and suturing her head to obscene downloaded images and tinkering with these images pixel by pixel (and the hours did fly by when you were tinkering with pixels), he’d read no books at all.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

   Kevin was surprised to see his own face on the card. It was an authentic California ID under the name Oliver Chen. "Where'd you get the picture?" Kevin asked. "Your MIT facebook."

   2002, Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House

   There is no interests section in the facebook. You know why? No one wants to flip through a book to find out which girls play chess.

   2003, Steve Hofstetter, Student Body Shots: A Sarcastic Look at the Best 4-6 Years of Your Life

present singular third person facebooks · participle present facebooking · participle past facebooked · past facebooked

1. Alternative letter-case form of Facebook.

   A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.

   2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN

alternative facebook

1. trademarkA social-networking website where users can find acquaintances or friends, exchange messages, and post updates.

   Mia was just seeing a reel on Facebook that her friend had posted.

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   Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).

   2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business

   Synonyms: FB

plural Facebooks · alternative facebook

1. A personal web profile on the social-networking site Facebook.

   You might have a Facebook. So do I. And so does my mom and my grandma and all of her friends. But you know who doesn’t have a Facebook? Your kid’s friends.

   2015 March 27, “To the Well-Intentioned but Ignorant Parents of Teenagers.”https://web.archive.org/web/20160216211258/https://cutestpkever.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/to-the-well-intentioned-but-ignorant-parents-of-teenagers/, Kayla Nicole's Blog, at cutestpkever.wordpress.com

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   'An intimate photo has been posted on your cloned Facebook page,' says Greg. 'What, of me in the nuddy?' Nick snorts a note of laughter. 'No, of you and a woman.' 'What woman? Show me,' he says holding his hand out.

   2021 July 28, Ruby Speechley, The Face At The Window: A gripping, twisty thriller you won't be able to put down, Hera books Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC

present singular third person Facebooks · participle present Facebooking · participle past Facebooked · past Facebooked · alternative facebook

1. intransitiveTo use the social-networking site Facebook.
2. transitiveTo send a message or leave a comment on Facebook.

   Facebook me the details later.

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   Corinthia’s bathroom was never discussed with the Lugo Memorial student body, but when it (the bathroom) materialized, it was Facebooked, Instagrammed, Tweeted, Foursquared, WordPressed, Tumblred, Snapchatted, and so thoroughly digitally disseminated that it was as if pictures of Rinna Buss’s breasts had been leaked.

   2018, Adam Rapp, chapter 1, in Fum, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 21

   One element of its national campaign around the November elections was the Clipboard Project, which took photographs of roughly 200 music and entertainment stars holding HeadCount’s Register to Vote clipboard. These images were then tweeted, Facebooked, and linked to the official Web site to be pinned, Tumblr’ed, recommended on Google, StumbleUpon’ed, shared on Digg or Reddit, or otherwise circulated.

   2014, Jennifer Jeanne Richardson, “HeadCount”, in Kerric Harvey, editor, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, volume 2, Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 626