We recently heard about “w00t” being chosen the word of the year by Merriam-Webster. Now “Facebook” has been added to the Collins English Dictionary.

This has been added both as a noun meaning “a popular social networking web site” and a verb that means to search someone’s profile. In fact the Collins guys are so impresed by Facebook that they have even added another meaning to the word pimp, it says that to “pimp” one’s profile is “to make one’s profile page on a social networking site appear more attractive by adding graphics, video, music, etc”.

So now that it’s part of English dictionary, it’s grammatically correct to “facebook your friend”. In fact since the verb simply means to search someone’s profile, it seems even a sentence like “I was facebooking my friend on MySpace” should also be correct . Similarly, it’s probably no more a taboo for someone to say that he wants to be a pimp, since it may simply mean that he wants to be a good graphic designer?

Given the trend of words like w00t and Facebook making it to the dictionary, I am wondering if MySpace and Orkut are going to be soon added as synonyms of Facebook :).