Definition of "Facebookable"

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

2012 September 7, Joanne Laucius, “It’s frosh week lite, litigation-free”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A2

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

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

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, Mazen Kasamani, Improving Your Digital Photography, Xlibris

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

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

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

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).

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

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!

2019, Chris Pavone, The Paris Diversion, Crown, Crown Publishing Group, page 112

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

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

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