To look at pictures, read profile information, and/or repeatedly check the status of an individual on facebook. This person can range from a good friend to someone who you have never actually met.
1. When the best, or only, appropriate response to a situation is a facepalm from a third party, because words just cannot describe the full extent of thoughtlessness or idiocy as is evident.
2. When you see firsthand, or hear about, somebody doing something so stupid that you cannot imagine said person NOT facepalming themselves, so you facepalm out of pure sympathy.
This textbook is facepalmtastic because the publisher let the author get away with saying this:
"Cultural Studies insists that culture must be studied..."
EXCERPT FROM:
Dines, Gail and Humez, Jean M. "Gender, Race and Class in Media" 2 ed. page 10.
Facewasting is the act of wasting a ridiculous amount of time on FaceBook, sat there staring at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen for a "notification". This type of behavior is often shown by people with little or no social life