Unfriend – Oxford Word of the Year 2009

Facebook doesn’t have an “unfriend” button. That didn’t stop the New Oxford American Dictionary to name it the word of the year 2009. The meaning of the word is to click ‘Remove Friend’ button in Facebook or any other social networking site. Here is the Oxford definition:

unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.

As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.”

According to the Oxford blog some other twitterfic words were considered for the word of the year 2009 but unfriend was found to be the most suitable word having currency and potential longevity.