Facebook is one of the hottest words of the year thus far in 2007. Merriam-Webster has listed facebook as of the top 20 finalists for word of the year.

Merriam-Webster defines facebook as:
facebook
(verb) : To get on a facebook website.
Did you facebook today?

(verb) : to look up someone’s profile on the popular Internet social network Facebook.
I facebooked Sarah the other day and posted a comment on her wall, but she has yet to reply to my comment.

(verb) : 1.to search for another person through the online directory know as facebook 2. to send a message through the online directory know as facebook
I facebooked Lauren yesterday to see where she goes to college.

(verb) : To add someone to your list of friends on the “facebook.com” website.
Hey, I saw you facebooked me. (also a noun, as in “Look him up on facebook.”)

Facebooking
(verb) : To communicate with others through facebook.com, like “chatting” is to instant messaging.

(verb) : It means checking out your Facebook.com profile or your friends’ Facebook.com profile.
I was facebooking my friends profiles.

Facebook has become a somewhat common verb as people often will say “Facebook Me”. You know there is something special about a website when it enters the list of words that has become a verb in the english language… kind of like “Google it”.

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