Facebookable

English

Etymology

From Facebook +‎ -able.

Adjective

Facebookable (comparative more Facebookable, superlative most Facebookable)

1. Worthy or able to be posted on the social media platform Facebook.
   • 2012 September 7, Joanne Laucius, “It’s frosh week lite, litigation-free”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A2:

     Transitions are now defined by consumer culture and the desire to turn a moment into a Facebookable event.

   • 2013 August 14, Matt DeBow, “Bug Chicks invade library”, in Lebanon Express, 126 years, number 26, page A4:

     “Ladies, look with your eyes, not just your iPhones,” Reddick said. “I know everything is Facebookable, but sometimes you have to experience things firsthand.”

   • 2016, Mazen Kasamani, Improving Your Digital Photography, Xlibris, →ISBN:

     This is what I strive to teach you here, and I will give you effective tips about your camera and artistic guidelines on how to use it, where to point it, and when to take your shot so that at the end you have a lovely ‘Facebookable’ photo!

   • 2016, Peter Hurley, The Headshot: The Secrets to Creating Amazing Headshot Portraits, New Riders, Peachpit:

     So, if I get a funny face or a cracking up picture, I tell them to keep it and their spouse might like it, or I’ll say, “This shot is totally Facebookable!”

   • 2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7:

     According to industry insiders, some restaurants are now deliberately including one eminently Facebook-able dish on their menus — a trend not universally welcomed.

   • 2018, Meshel Laurie, Bad Buddhist: Speed Bumps and Detours on the Path to Enlightenment, Nero, Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd, →ISBN:

     Do you believe all people are equal? Do you believe women are people? If you answered ‘yes’ to both of these questions, congratulations! You are a feminist. As contemporary quizzes go, it’s probably a bit anticlimactic. It’s definitely not as Facebookable as the ones that tell you what Game of Thrones character you’d be (I’d be Khal Drogo – excellent), or what exotic city you really belong in (Los Angeles? No way) or what your pet says about you (nothing – he can’t talk).

   • 2019, Chris Pavone, The Paris Diversion, Crown, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 112:

     Could she compete for firmest ass and strongest triceps and widest gap between her thighs, for the latest this and chicest that, the most original and attractive conversions of the money her husband earns into documentable manifestations of the good life, Instagrammable and Facebookable, eminently enviable, the best of everything, we all want the good life, don’t we, and look—I have it!

   • 2020, Jane E. Goodman, Staging Cultural Encounters: Algerian Actors Tour the United States, Indiana University Press:

     The very fact of phatic connection between Istijmam and their US counterparts was itself put on display: it was turned into a series of Facebook[-]able moments in which the two groups were seen to be in connection.

   • 2020, Stephanie Malia Hom, “The city of light in the city of signs: virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las Vegas”, in Maria Gravari-Barbas, Nelson Graburn, Jean-François Staszak, editors, Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities, Routledge:

     Everything is seemingly image-worthy and selfie-ready, and therefore Instagrammable, Snapchattable, Facebookable, etc.