<p>[?Unfriend</a>? is Oxford Dictionary?s Word of the Year](<a href=“http://mashable.com/2009/11/16/unfriend-word-of-the-year/]?Unfriend”>http://mashable.com/2009/11/16/unfriend-word-of-the-year/)</p>
<p>Facebook is a paradigm shift in the way our culture communicates. The bar has been raised. Jump over it or get beaten to death with it.</p>
<p>I created a Facebook page earlier this year. I am so sick of getting friend requests from people I don’t know, barely know, or wish I didn’t know, and reading all of their insipid updates, that I barely log in anymore. Overrated.</p>