Technology and the insidious rise of English 2.0

I DON'T claim to be perfect, but as a writer I try my best to be grammatically correct and to choose my words well. So with a chuckle I have noticed that certain words have had their meanings changed by technology - call it ENGLISH 2.0, if you will. Perhaps only those above the age of 20 will understand what I mean. So let's take a journey back in time to when we first heard these terms some years back.

Let's start with Facebook. Frankly, I don't remember what I was thinking of when I first heard the term Facebook. But maybe I would have thought it would have been an app to read e-books close to the face? App, you say? I would have probably thought someone had mispronounced the opposite of down.

For example, if you wanted to make someone a friend, you would befriend them and not "friend" them (isn't "friend" a noun?) If you liked something, but then changed your mind, I don't recall if you unliked it or simply said you then disliked it. What I recall is that "unlike" is used to give a contrary example (for example, unlike Mr Posadas here . . .).