The last time I posted a status on Facebook was quite a while ago, let's not mention Twitter.
I really don't find the phrase "status" adequate because people are really posting things like how much they are dredging studies, their hatred for work, detesting life, quarrel with girlfriend, sleeping time, lunch menu and how much they want others to know that they're loving their partners.
No, I like how social network allows us to talk about news, politics (smart comments and reflections that is), social issues, happy things that happened in life worth sharing or nice videos/songs to recommend. Even showing friends how life's been going on through photos or checking in into places interesting (or for advertising purposes like me... Business!) to share is good. But the contents of your recent quarrel with boyfriend? Your attempt to gain attention through telling people how depressed you are? Showing off how you won an argument with your mum? Seriously? I don't see how that's socially beneficial or even adequate. True, there really isn't a Big Brother on the Internet to tell you what's right and what's not so, or maybe there isn't even a clear definition of right/wrong on the issue of social-sense over the virtual data world, but surely you wont use a fork to drink your soup isn't it? Start deploying some common sense maybe, that's something uncommon nowadays...
