But at least two of these sites have one thing in common: apart from being social spaces where you can meet and chat to people, share photos and other things, they have all added new verbs and nouns to the language in the past couple of years. Let us take a look at some examples. You can Facebook your holiday photos (upload them to your Facebook page), Facebook someone to see who they are (look him up in Facebook), Facebook someone about a party (contact someone through their Facebook page) and ask permission to Facebook someon

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Do you use any of the social networking websites which are so popular these days, the places where you can connect with friends and relatives and meet people who share the same interests as you? If you are younger, you may use Instagram, young adults are more likely to be found on Facebook and busy professionals may prefer something like LinkedIn. But at least two of these sites have one thing in common: apart from being social spaces where you can meet and chat to people, share photos and other things, they have all added new verbs and nouns to the language in the past couple of years. Let us take a look at some examples. You can Facebook your holiday photos (upload them to your Facebook page), Facebook someone to see who they are (look him up in Facebook), Facebook someone about a party (contact someone through their Facebook page) and ask permission to Facebook someone (add them as a Facebook friend).
As you can see, ‘Facebook’ is a pretty versatile word, and you could say the same about ‘Instagram’, which you will find being used in much the same way all over the Net. LinkedIn (being a more adult, professional community) has not been used in the same way. While you’re ‘Facebooking’ or ‘Instagramming’, you may also find yourself ‘commenting’ (writing a comment on someone’s Facebook or Instagram page), as in this example: ‘I commented Maria that she should come to the café on Saturday and she commented me that she couldn’t because she was going away for the weekend

 

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