[lg policy] Facebook's 'unfriend' is Word of the Year

[Francis Hult]

MSNBC

 

Facebook's 'unfriend' is Word of the Year

 

OMG! It's that time of year again! For realsies! 

 

We just tossed the rotten jack-o'-lantern and already New Oxford American Dictionary announces its "Word of the Year." For 2009, that word is a verb, one with which we in our social network-obsessed culture should be very familiar: "Unfriend: To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook."

 

Full story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33975428/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

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