Quick, name the most annoying thing about your Facebook profile? The status message! Trying to contort your status to fit the "is" from updates using the proper English language often proves extremely challenging. How many times have you ignored the "is" altogether and just inserted whatever you wanted, whether it made sense or not? Fear not, Facebook has listened to their users. Over 164,000 members in a Facebook group lobbied to get rid of the clunky "is" verb and succeeded. Currently the developer platform is the only code that has been updated with the change.
However, there's no word on when you'll see the "is" disappear from your user accounts.
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11-20-2007 @ 4:26PM
Eric said...
MySpace removed "is" from their status updates a few weeks ago... I still hate figuring out how to work around it on Facebook.
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11-20-2007 @ 5:04PM
Todd said...
Chris Gilmer IS: struggling with simple grammar.
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11-20-2007 @ 8:09PM
kojo87 said...
while i dislike the "is" i also feel that now we are going to see a lot of random status messages that aren't exactly status related. oh well.
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11-20-2007 @ 9:03PM
xevia said...
I have not used facebook yet, is it a lot better than myspace? Do you get less spam or random invites?
http://www.starkicking.com
http://www.inetnerd.com
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11-20-2007 @ 9:22PM
burnblue said...
I thought it made sense. It's a status. Sure, if it prevents you from saying random cool things that you might set as your message in an IM client, but it's a ..status. I think there should be another spot to put cool messages
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11-20-2007 @ 10:47PM
Jeff said...
Now if we can just get them to get rid of all the JUNK they added when they added all those 3rd party apps...
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11-20-2007 @ 10:47PM
Lochlan said...
My "is" disappeared yesterday. Awesome!
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11-20-2007 @ 11:17PM
Sujoy said...
The "is" is back again. See for yourself in my post.
http://techkeyla.blogspot.com/2007/11/facebook-is-in-status-message-removed.html
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11-21-2007 @ 1:31AM
Lochlan said...
Yeah, I just checked and my "is" is back too. I'm sure it'll all be rolled out eventually.
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11-21-2007 @ 6:46PM
lroeder said...
Mine's still there. I couldn't really care either way, but maybe I'll start updating it now.
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