Meaning of facemail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Face-to-face communication, as opposed to other non-personal forms of communication.
2. An email message sent via Facebook.
   Internet, countable, uncountable

Examples

“It's been said that some high-tech experts think⟳ so little of actual conversation that they call⟳ it “facemail,” in their minds an inefficient and inferior form⟳ of communication.”

“So we had a facemail meeting and took him out to the woodshed, so to speak⟳.”

“That cyberlanguage has become⟳ firmly established in language communities can be observed in the practice of turning common, everyday expressions into technical metaphor: [...] talking personally is to use⟳ facemail, [...]”

“Zaria was surprised as she opened her e-mail a few days later to find⟳ new facemail from none other than Michael Kennedy. [...] I was surprised that you accepted my friend request⟳, but then receiving facemail from you ... Am I dreaming? ...”

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