facestalking

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noun

The practice of obtaining information about someone without their knowledge by using Facebook or other social media.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verb

alternative face-stalking

  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of facestalk
nounfacestalking (uncountable)

alternative face-stalking

  1. uncountableThe practice of obtaining information about someone without their knowledge by using Facebook or other social media.

    No, not like you “check up” on your ex and his new girlfriend Facestalking, but actual stalking–in the bushes with binoculars stalking.

    2012 May 4, “I Regret: Dating A Criminal”, in The Gloss
    1 more example

    I guess it is stalking, only the modern day equivalent (now termed Facestalking), albeit it without you having to hang out by the dumpster behind your intended's building to sift through her garbage for old underwear or loose strands of hair.

    2014, Travis J. Hawke, Claire Bradshaw, The Bachelor Life, →ISBN
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