那個網站，還有你在上面的那一頁
把那本冊子接上網路，就是這一組：一樣是照片配名字，只是規模變成幾億人，而且每個人自己維護自己那一格。
noun · A2
A website and phone app, started in 2004, where you make a page about yourself, connect with people you know, and post messages, photos and videos for them to see.
臉書
核心畫面
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.
facebook 可以想成就是字面上那兩塊：一本「臉的本子」。網站出現以前，它是真的一本冊子——一格一格的小照片，照…更多收起
facebook 可以想成就是字面上那兩塊：一本「臉的本子」。網站出現以前，它是真的一本冊子——一格一格的小照片，照片下面印著名字。它的用途只有一個：認人。一屋子叫不出名字的人，翻一翻就都對上號了。後來的意思都是從這個用途長出來的。一個網站幫幾億人做同一件事。你在上面那一頁，就是本子裡屬於你的那一格：你的臉、你的名字。動詞就是你對這種本子做的事——上去找一個人。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 etymology fields supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4, entries Facebook and facebook)
Two branches
當動詞用：上去找那個人
名冊的用途本來就是「找人」。英文把工具的名字直接拿來當動詞，於是這個用途變成了一個動作。
verb · B1
To use Facebook to reach or look up a person: to send them a message there, or to search the site to find out about them.
用臉書聯絡（某人）
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。