Have you ever heard of the concept of micro-blogging? Of course this sounds smaller than blogging and mini-blogging. Facebook introduced micro-blogging with the introduction of the feature called ‘Status Updates’.
Status Updates have become one of the most popular features in Facebook, and used by almost all the users. Status Updates enables the Facebook users to inform their friends about their thoughts, actions, and whereabouts. Speaking with personal experience, I usually read through almost all the status updates of friends whenever I login to Facebook.
Status Updates fall in to a few categories. First of all, it is an update about something you are engaged with currently. As an example, ‘Jen is listing to Akon’ is an update about what Jen is engaged with. Frequently, Status Updates are used to express thoughts such as ‘Billy is a total idiot’.In addition to that, many users use Status Updates for being funny and ironic such as ‘Sam thinks Obama should swear a few more times jut to be safe’.
When Status Update was originally implemented, Facebook prompted it with ‘<User’s Name> is…’ and the users filled the rest. These Status Updates appeared as ‘Tom is listing to silence’. By December 2007, Facebook removed the need of ‘is’ in the Facebook Status Updates. Although ‘is’ still appears by default, users can use the backspace key to delete it if they wish.
With the latest updates of Facebook (March 2009), the question for Status Updates, ‘What are you doing?’ was changed to ‘What’s on your mind?’.
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it’s frustrating not to have status updates in the friends tab. the status update tab in home is not alphabetically listed. the old format was way better. just wanted to let you know. thanks.
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Hi, very nice post. I have been wonder’n bout this issue,so thanks for posting
how i can member of this