Unfriend Is the Word Of the Year!
November 17, 2009
Unfriend is the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year. If you use Facebook or some other Social media this is not a new word. New Oxford American Dictionary has announced today that they have selected Unfriend as their word of the year. Unfriend essentially means remove someone from your Friend’s list on a social network. This word was indeed made popular by Facebook which is still the most popular social networking service on the planet today. Oxford hypermiling as their word of the year last year.
To me Hide is the dangerous Facebook word that I would nominate for next year. Why is it dangerous? Because you can have tons of friends and they can all hide your posts. You will never know that they hide your posts and you think “I have X number of followers.” But how many are hidden?
Unfriend
n. To remove a contact from your network on a social networking site,
such as Facebook.
“Michael keeps spamming me with requests to join his pirate army and
take stupid quizzes. I’m totally going to unfriend him.”
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