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Facebook Pull 

The act of copying photos from an individual's Facebook page to your computer as a precaution against deletion or removal. This is always done without the photo's owner's permission. Usually applies to scandalous photos of hot chicks and/or embarrassing poses or moments.
"I just totally Facebook pulled the photos of Libby in her low cut dress..."
Facebook Pull by Meow Mix Muto January 14, 2009
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Pull a Facebook 

1. When you make a huge change to something like a website or a service and everybody get's used to how it works, but you immediately change it again.
2. A short way to describe what a website might have done in a mass update.
Oh sorry I didn't see your E-Mail. My E-mail provider had to "Pull a Facebook" with the inbox and I'm trying to learn how to use my inbox again.
Pull a Facebook by JudgeJC January 21, 2011

pulling a facebook 

Getting people to enter lots of information into your service with no awareness of a future in which each edit, rather than just the end profile, will be revealed, and then launching a feature that reveals each little edit the person has ever made.

Similar to pulling the rug out from under your software's users, or violating expectations you've created.
"Don't take all of his myspace photos and put them on the homepage. That's like pulling a facebook."
pulling a facebook by gleemie October 6, 2006

Pulling A Facebook 

Ruining your product trying to catch up with a quickly rising competitor, constant updates that don't actually improve anything, risking integrity and original goals out of fear of becoming obsolete
Man, Mozilla is really pulling a facebook with all the useless updates since Firefox 4.

Yeah, they're only making it easier for Google to swoop up all of their users with Chrome

Pulled a Facebook 

(of corporations) profiting from the slow destruction of society by facilitating toxic echo chambers.

(of people) Locking your keys in your own car, home, computer, etc
1. Fox News really pulled a Facebook by telling its viewers to not get vaccinated.

2. I had to call a locksmith today, because I pulled a Facebook. I was really embarrassed to have to explain I locked my keys in my own house.
Pulled a Facebook by Lexophile314 October 4, 2021
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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