“Unfriend” Approved by Oxford. Want To Kill Your Cyber Social Life?

First off, the meaning of Web 2.0. From what I have gathered, Web 2.0 is Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Friendster. I’m sure there a whole lot more. These are the social networking sites that most of us are very into. Friendster did not appeal to me because of its name alone. Not too long ago, I was hesitant to create a Facebook page because I was scared of reading way too many things that end up in this: !!!!!!!!!!!!! or this: hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! Plus those classmates from kindergarten to high school. I didn’t talk to them before, why would I talk to them now? But my relatives and friends are insistent. So I finally gave in. I have more than 100 in my friends list now and most of them are people that I don’t know jack shit about. I plan to delete almost half of the people in my list. And by delete, I mean unfriend (*cringe*). The term “unfriend” by the way, made its way to be the 2009 Oxford Word of the Year.

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

Way to go Facebook. A sudden thought. Does it mean that we won’t be seeing “unfriend” underlined in red when we type the term in a word processor anytime soon?

So. Back to taking people off my list. The first ones to go are those who end up everything with 40 exclamation points and types LiKe ThIs. For those who want to totally annihilate their Web 2.0 presence, there is  Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. This website will kill your cyber social life for you and it’s as easy as clicking the noose button after typing in your last words.

They offer Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and linkedin suicide. This is perfect if you think that you have way too much of yourself on the internet. They have a 2.0 Suicide Tour and you can read all the testimonials of those who have already kicked the bucket. There are currently 98 pages and counting.