- No, I’m not busy; I was just facebooking.
verb; zero derivation
to surf the website thefacebook.com with no specific goal or purpose, only browsing Less cumbersome than saying “I was just browsing the site thefacebook.com”. Popular among college students who are also users of thefacebook.com. It has become a sort of pastime to do in one's free time - to browse thefacebook.com to see what people have updated their profiles or put up pictures of themselves.
Etymology : zero derivation of facebook from compounding of Latin facies 'appearance' + Old English bok 'written document'
Source : Roommate
Last modified: 10 June 2008