Facebook was a social networking site. It connected individuals and included a live video feature. (AUDIO: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy)
The Sixth Doctor had his own account, where he used images of his fourth, fifth and current incarnations for his profile pictures. (PROSE: Academic Notes)
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According to Fester Cat[statement unclear], he had a Facebook account set up seemingly by 2007, which he used to interact with people far away. (PROSE: The Story of Fester Cat)
During the Atraxi incident in 2008, the Eleventh Doctor told Jeff Angelo to spread one word ("zero") across the whole world. Facebook was one of the methods of distribution that the Doctor suggested. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
Around the 2000s[nb 1], after the Torchwood Three team accidentally drove off the Severn Bridge, they heard a mysterious voice under the water. Back at the Hub, Ianto Jones stated that it was hit on Facebook. (AUDIO: Submission)
In 2013, Clara Oswald cross-referenced her photographs of Rosemary Kizlet's staff with, among other sites, Facebook to learn that they worked at the Shard. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
In October 2016, Tanya Adeola killed time after homework by scrolling through some of Buzzfeed's lists. (PROSE: Joyride)
Rab noted that Charlotte Pollard did not have an account on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr. (AUDIO: Embankment Station)
In 2017, Tyler Steele joked that Jack Harkness should have written inspirational quotes on his Facebook wall rather than taking up to a rooftop to deliver them. (AUDIO: Changes Everything)
On 23 April 2018, P.R.O.B.E. discovered that a Facebook group focusing on supernatural events had emerged, and that their posts included data about several real incidents rather than the usual collection of cheap hoaxes. Though Giles had Maxie Masters delete all footage relating to P.R.O.B.E. itself, they resolved to keep an eye on the Facebook group so it could inform them of more preternatural events, as it had successfully allowed them to find and defeat the Peckham Poltergeist. (WC: Peckham Poltergeist [+]Loading...["Peckham Poltergeist (webcast)"])
Lily Wood was fired for having Facebook open at work, so she could check up on her ill brother. In fact, her alien boss, Jane Rivers, actually brought her into her office to eat her.
Tasha Williams later thought about witnesses inevitably sending Snapchat photos and Facebook posts, if Rivers were to blow her cover by turning outright murderous in front of all her employees. (AUDIO: 9 to 5 [+]Loading...["9 to 5 (BBV audio story)"])
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As Adric recalled, the Fifth Doctor once described Facebook as a computer program which was banned on 21st century Earth for turning the Earth's population into "mindless, incommunicative zombies". (AUDIO: The Toy)
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According to the Twelfth Doctor, Smartsuits could update Facebook pages. (TV: Oxygen)
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Donna Noble compared the Sub-Wave Network to an "outer-space" Facebook. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
When the Twelfth Doctor mentioned that his sonic screwdriver had no effect on wood, Maebh Arden said that the trees could communicate with one another, if only just a little. The Doctor sarcastically asked Maebh if she thought the trees communicate by some form of "tree-Facebook". (TV: In the Forest of the Night)
In a dream, the Twelfth Doctor told Clara Oswald not to get too attached to the people at the arctic base on the North Pole because it "isn't Facebook". (TV: Last Christmas)
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- Main article: Doctor Who social media
The Doctor Who franchise, including Big Finish Productions, ran Facebook accounts.
The prequel for Doctor Who's ninth series, The Doctor's Meditation, was released in the United Kingdom on the official Doctor Who Facebook page.
While neither Facebook nor any of the apps or websites of its parent company, also called Facebook prior to 2021, had video calling features at the time of Donna's comparison to Sub-Wave in The Stolen Earth, when Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy was released, video calling was indeed possible on Facebook Inc.'s (later known as Meta's) Messenger app.
A social media site called "Twitbook", a pastiche of Twitter and Facebook, also exists in the DWU.
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In a non-spoiler review of Big Show Everyone's Into, there were icons for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Reddit. (WC: Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adventure, The Doomsday Contract)
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- ↑ The first two episodes of Torchwood: The Lost Files are supposedly set no earlier than 2011, as Joanna Carew was born in 1930 and is 81 years old by the time of The Devil and Miss Carew, and dialogue places Submission "more than 50 years" after the successful return of the Trieste's crew from the depths of the Mariana Trench in 1960. This, however, conflicts with Ianto Jones being alive and the Hub still existing at the time of The Devil and Miss Carew and Submission, placing those two stories before the 2009 setting of Children of Earth: Day One (in which the Hub is destroyed); with Miracle Day being set in 2011 according to a text message display in episode 2, Rendition; and with Esther Drummond mentioning in The New World, the first episode of Miracle Day, that Gwen Cooper had not been seen in the past twelve months.
