The act of debating social issues on a Facebook thread. A pointless exercise where parties post their viewpoints in an attempt to convince readers and other parties that their views are correct
"He posted a joke about the Arizona immigration law and then a 100 post FaBate broke out."
"He is such a troll, every day he posts something looking for a FaBate."
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"