Facebook, transitive

facebook – verb

1.       [transitive] to slap someone in the face using a book rather than a palm:

  She facebooked him after she’d overheard his phone conversation.

2.       [transitive] to choose someone out of a larger group exclusively on the basis of his/her appearance, without meeting the person in person:

For the fair, we have carefully facebooked three attractive hostesses.

        Our agency specialises in facebooking services worldwide.

3.       [transitive] to promote a book by using a known person’s testimonial, to endorse, especially using the close-up of the endorsing person’s face:

If we manage to convince him to facebook Brian’s debut, the sales figures will certainly soar.

4.       [transitive] specialised usage

to lay down with one’s face covered with an open book, especially to isolate oneself from outside world:

The first sign of his burnout was that he facebooked with a volume of Longman dictionary on the couch all days.

This is a fake dictionary entry, of course. Everyone knows that the word means something very different, though spending whole days facebooking might still come close to meaning no.4 above. But if the word „facebook” wasn't reserved yet, I would have created it. First of all, I would make it a verb. Then, I’d add a noun, meaning:

1.       A particular kind of a slap in the face.
2.       An act of choosing based exclusively on someone’s looks, especially the face.
3.       Endorsement of a book by a celebrity, showing his/her face.
4.       A person lying down with a book covering his face, often suffering from a psychological disorder.

Next, there would be an adjective “facebookish” and "facebookable" (=attractive) and an adverb “facebookishly”. These are very nice words, as they sound very bookish.

“He’s quite facebookish” – meaning that particular “he” has a tendency to facebook people (sense 2. above).

“She turned down his proposal quite facebookishly – he came back home badly bruised.” (sense 1.) “Honey, I’ve facebooked you already a while ago, and couldn’t wait till we meet in person.” (sense 2.)

And I could facebook my blog (sense 3. above) if only my rabbit face was a bit more facebookable (sense 2.)