Unfriend becomes word of the year

My good friend and IT lifeline, James Frost, sent me this. According to The Register, the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year is "unfriend". As in, "Me and Haley had this huge, like, fight and stuff so I totally unfriended her on Facebook."

The actual entry is: Unfriend: verb; to remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook.

Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford's US dictionary, said, "It has both currency and potential longevity"...