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artu
Promising
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted June 19, 2020 07:56 PM |
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Edited by artu at 21:13, 19 Jun 2020.
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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
Bad-mannered
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posted June 19, 2020 08:09 PM |
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no shortening in Romania, not one that I know of anyway
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CountBezuhoff
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posted June 19, 2020 08:12 PM |
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Here Facebook is also often shortened to 'face' (still in English).
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bloodsucker
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posted June 19, 2020 08:34 PM |
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I have no idea how the peasantry talks about FaceBook or any social media.
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artu
Promising
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted June 19, 2020 08:43 PM |
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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
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted June 19, 2020 08:58 PM |
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"Here" is nowhere. The Count is lost in time.
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Blizzardboy
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posted June 19, 2020 09:02 PM |
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In Bikini Bottom everybody just uses Apple Live Chat, except we usually call it Pineapple Live Chat.
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Stevie
Responsible
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posted June 19, 2020 10:09 PM |
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monere
Bad-mannered
Supreme Hero
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posted June 19, 2020 10:13 PM |
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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 |
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So, I guess I'm in good company, tough...
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Galaad
Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
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posted June 19, 2020 10:22 PM |
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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
Promising
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted June 19, 2020 10:30 PM |
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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...
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posted June 20, 2020 07:23 PM |
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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
Disgraceful
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posted November 22, 2020 07:41 PM |
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obligatory.
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CountBezuhoff
Supreme Hero
Nihil sub sole novum
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posted February 11, 2021 09:51 PM |
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fred79 said:
obligatory.
Ancient.
The Count
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