I wrote an article about a month ago, on ‘how to find out when someone removes you from their Facebook friend list’. Now I guess I’ll have to change the title of the page from ‘When someone removes you from their friend list‘ to ‘When someone unfriends you‘ :), just coz the dictionary’s publisher, Britain’s Oxford University Press came up with a new word called ‘Unfriend’. Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a “friend” on a social network site such as Facebook.
“Unfriend” has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.
In technology, there was also “#hashtag,” which is the hash sign added to a word or phrase that lets Twitter users search for tweets similarly tagged; “intexticated” for when people are distracted by texting while driving, and “sexting,” which is the sending of sexually explicit SMSes and pictures by cellphone.
WOW… that’s lot of words getting added to the dictionary from Twitter and Facebook :). I guess the dictionary is soon going to be changing to the URBAN DICTIONARY.
