
Unfriending just got formal recognition – The new Oxford American Dictionary has announced it as the word of the year. For the uninitiated,unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.Although the word may be new, as a concept ‘unfriending’ is not something new, at least not to those who grew up in India. The Tamil word for it is ‘Kaa’. Children unfriend each other by simply telling them ‘I am Kaa with you. You are not my friend anymore.’ I think Hindi-speaking children use “katti’ for this. Kaa...