Facebook vs. Yahoo — What's the Difference?

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students.

An unrefined and often loud or disruptive person.

A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals’ photographs and names.

(pejorative) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person

A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.

(cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Alternative form of Facebook

An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

A battle cry.

To give a cry of "yahoo".

To search using the Yahoo! search engine.

One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.

Not very intelligent or interested in culture

One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift