.."The old status-update formula was simple, declarative: "Claire is working," "Claire is hungry," "Claire is unable to finish this article, so she is procrastinating by checking Facebook." But if I'm hungry and you ask me what's on my mind, what do I say? Do I just type "doughnuts" into the field? Then everyone I know will just see the update "Claire doughnuts."
If people are honest about their status updates, Facebook news feeds will become either a series of one-word thoughts or uncomfortably intimate revelations: Your prom date needs to drop a few pounds. Your co-worker is starved for affection. And your best friend wants a taco. -Adapted from Time.com
and Claire Suddath writes about the annoying 25 THINGS I DIDNT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU which apparently received a lot of feed back from defensive facebook users who love reading 25 things about themselves.
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