This new transitive verb has come to us from the world of online social networking. Just as the word google, which as now come to mean doing almost any type of research, has entered the language, now facebook has arrived.
To facebook someone means to contact them on the social networking site Facebook.
It has in fact two meanings:
1) to communicate with someone by using the Facebook webstie and 2) to search for information about someone by using the Facebook webstie.
Examples of these two uses might be seen in situations where employers check prospective job applicants to see if they really are who they say they are (eg They didn’t really belief her claims for being punctual and responsible after they facebooked her and saw how active her social life was. ) or in a context of making contact interesting people you may have met the night before to arrange another meeting. (eg I facebooked him about meeting this weekend)
And, if that was not official enough for you please not that this word has now been added to the Collins English Dictionary.
Facebook webstie: www.facebook.com
