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Facebook

[ feys-book ]

Trademark.
  1. a brand name for a social media service and website, launched in 2004.


verb (used with object)

  1. to communicate with (a person) or search for information about (a person) by using Facebook:

    My old girlfriend just facebooked me.

    His future employer Facebooked him and decided to withdraw the job offer.

  2. to post on Facebook:

    I facebooked some photos of my cat.

    You should Facebook the event so more people will show up.

verb (used without object)

  1. to use Facebook:

    Does your mom Facebook?

Facebook

/ ˈfeɪsˌbʊk /

noun

  1. a popular social networking website
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr; sometimes not capital to search for (a person's profile) on the Facebook website
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Spelling Note

The official trademarked name of the social media platform and website is now styled in all capital letters “FACEBOOK,” though prior to 2020 the trademarked style was “facebook,” in all lowercase letters. Formal writing—as exemplified by most news and book publishers—treats such names as regular proper nouns, in this case “Facebook,” using an initial capital letter, but not all caps. However, when a trade name begins with a lowercase letter followed by an uppercase one, such as eBay or iPad, this spelling is retained, even at the beginning of a sentence.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Facebook1

First recorded in 2000–05; from facebook, a college student directory with personal photos and basic information
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Example Sentences

“I was sure that I was going to die. It was one of the craziest things that ever happened to me,” he said in a Facebook video.

There, officers later responded to “reports of a female screaming for help,” the Lawrence Police Department said in an April 2 Facebook post.

The court heard that the former charity worker messaged the woman from a Facebook account under a false name in March.

From BBC

Bluesky is also attempting to fix the content moderation issues plaguing sites like Twitter and Facebook.

From Salon

His death was announced in a post on his Facebook page, which said he “passed away peacefully at home” in Los Angeles “after suffering a stroke over the weekend.”

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