You can think of facebook as exactly what its two pieces say: a book of faces. Before any website existed, a facebook was a real book — small photographs in a grid, a name printed under each one — and its job was recognition: a room full of strangers turns into people you can name. Everything later grows out of that job. A website does the same thing for millions of people at once. Your own page inside it is your face and your name, the single entry in the book. And the verb is what you do with a book like that: you go to it to find a person.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary's entry derives the site name from the earlier common noun facebook (and its earlier forms TheFacebook and Facemash), and derives that noun from face + book, likely modelled after namebook.
來源資料把網站名字追到更早的普通名詞 facebook（更早還叫 TheFacebook、Facemash），而那個普通名詞則是 face＋book 組成的，可能是仿照 namebook 造出來的。
Wiktionary, "facebook"
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Facebookname/ˈfeɪsbʊk/
- 1
A 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.
- 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).
Facebooknoun/ˈfeɪsbʊk/
- 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.
- '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.
Facebookverb/ˈfeɪsbʊk/
- 1
To use the social-networking site Facebook.
- 2
To send a message or leave a comment on Facebook.
- Facebook me the details later.
- 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.
facebooknoun/ˈfeɪsˌbʊk/
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。