'Social Sharing' Added to Oxford Dictionaries

February 25, 2013

I’m quite surprised to know that the word ‘Social Sharing’ has been added to Oxford Dictionaries in a February 2013 update. (See: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/02/odo-february-2013-update/)

It says the definition of Social Sharing is

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/social+sharing

There are also new interesting words such as ‘Tweetable’ and ‘Dumbphone’. I haven’t heard both words before, but it seems useful words!

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/tweetable

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dumbphone

Yet, I’m just curious whether or not the words added to Oxford Dictionaries is important, because how many of us still open and look up a word in a dictionary? Also, this kind of ‘buzz’ word tend to be not a fixed meaning, and often changed meaning by users. So… when you find a new word on the web it might be better to google it, rather than taking down a dictionary from the shelf?

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Written by torutakezawa Posted in Social Sharing Tagged with buzz word, dumbphone, sharing, social networking services, social sharing, tweet, tweetable, twitter