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Facebook "is" updating status messages
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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Eric said 4:26PM on 11-20-2007
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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Todd said 5:04PM on 11-20-2007
Chris Gilmer IS: struggling with simple grammar.
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kojo87 said 8:09PM on 11-20-2007
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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xevia said 9:03PM on 11-20-2007
I have not used facebook yet, is it a lot better than myspace? Do you get less spam or random invites?
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burnblue said 9:22PM on 11-20-2007
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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Jeff said 10:47PM on 11-20-2007
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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Lochlan said 10:47PM on 11-20-2007
My "is" disappeared yesterday. Awesome!
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Sujoy said 11:17PM on 11-20-2007
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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Lochlan said 1:31AM on 11-21-2007
Yeah, I just checked and my "is" is back too. I'm sure it'll all be rolled out eventually.
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lroeder said 6:46PM on 11-21-2007
Mine's still there. I couldn't really care either way, but maybe I'll start updating it now.
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