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Thread: A question about Facebook
artu
artu


Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
posted June 19, 2020 07:56 PM
Edited by artu at 21:13, 19 Jun 2020.

A question about Facebook

In my country people call facebook shortly “face.” Like “look at his face page, he uploaded the vacation photos.” A friend of mine who’s living in the U.S. and who dislikes this shortening said “even Americans who talk in acronyms all the time don’t shorten facebook into face.” I objected, “well, face is a daily word for them, they already use it for its literal meaning.” So my question is for people not living in English speaking countries, is there a shortening for Facebook in your language? If there is, what is it?
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monere
monere


Bad-mannered
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posted June 19, 2020 08:09 PM

no shortening in Romania, not one that I know of anyway
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CountBezuhoff
CountBezuhoff


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Nihil sub sole novum
posted June 19, 2020 08:12 PM
Edited by CountBezuhoff at 20:12, 19 Jun 2020.

Here Facebook is also often shortened to 'face' (still in English).

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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


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posted June 19, 2020 08:34 PM
Edited by bloodsucker at 20:34, 19 Jun 2020.

I have no idea how the peasantry talks about FaceBook or any social media.
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artu
artu


Promising
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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted June 19, 2020 08:43 PM

CountBezuhoff said:
Here Facebook is also often shortened to 'face' (still in English).

The Count

And where is here?
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Drakon-Deus
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Qapla'
posted June 19, 2020 08:58 PM

"Here" is nowhere. The Count is lost in time.


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Blizzardboy
Blizzardboy


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Nerf Herder
posted June 19, 2020 09:02 PM

In Bikini Bottom everybody just uses Apple Live Chat, except we usually call it Pineapple Live Chat.

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Stevie
Stevie


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posted June 19, 2020 10:09 PM

When I was asked for my "Facebook" recently, I felt immense pleasure to let that person know I didn't have one. I disregard social media in general.
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monere
monere


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posted June 19, 2020 10:13 PM

Stevie said:
When I was asked for my "Facebook" recently, I felt immense pleasure to let that person know I didn't have one. I disregard social media in general.
cool! Me, too. Not that you care about me, but the more of us there are who dislike social media the better
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bloodsucker
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posted June 19, 2020 10:17 PM

So, I guess I'm in good company, tough...
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Galaad
Galaad

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posted June 19, 2020 10:22 PM

In France there is more of a play on words because "Face" roughly can sound like "ass" and "book" like "goat", so they say literally "goat ass". Interestingly even though it's widespread is also viewed as a lame play on words by most people.
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artu
artu


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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted June 19, 2020 10:30 PM

Well, they don’t call social media “the new smoking” for no reason. Those “likes” and “hearts” in FB or Instagram actually make you release dopamineand it can turn addictive. But just like everything else, if you are the one deciding when and how to use it, the sub-communities in FB are not much different than Heroes Community. I am a member of a few groups that share and discuss latest devolopments in science, a few music groups, one that releases rare jazz photos, a group about etymology, also the public page of a writer I follow, a philosophy group... All of these groups have very productive debates and interest specific information flow. I also met two of my girlfriends this way and ended up living together for two years with each.

But the type of facebook user who puts the photo of a stake he had at lunch and then starts counting how many likes he got seems irritating to me too.
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NoobX
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Now, this is a paradox...
posted June 20, 2020 07:23 PM

We usually shorten it to "Fejs" [pronounced like "face" in English].  There is also "FB", [not pronounced as "ef be", just "f b"]
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fred79
fred79


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Undefeatable Hero
posted November 22, 2020 07:41 PM

obligatory.


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CountBezuhoff
CountBezuhoff


Supreme Hero
Nihil sub sole novum
posted February 11, 2021 09:51 PM

fred79 said:
obligatory.




Ancient.

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