Facebooked

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Made contact or communicated with someone using the Facebook social media platform
2. Reached out to or interacted with a person through the Facebook website or app
3. Established a connection or sent messages to someone by means of Facebook's online service

Etymology: "Facebook" was coined in the 1500s for a very different thing: a "namebook," a booklet of names and faces used for identification. The English word "face" comes from Old French "face," from Late Latin "facia," tracing back through Latin "facies" (appearance, face), while "book" traces through Old English "bōc" to a Germanic root. Combined, "facebook" meant a book of portraits or a book of faces, the way a "namebook" was a book of names. The modern sense of the word, a verb meaning to contact or communicate with someone through the Facebook platform, is a direct extension of the 2000s social network named after that old idea. The past tense "facebooked" follows the regular English pattern of adding "-ed" to a verb, so it simply describes an action completed on that platform.