Facebook Status': Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm....."

I watched this video on youtube and found it to be so funny! When I got up this morning, I was looking for a clip to post I was thinking that one of the things I miss about not "facebooking" these past few days is not being able to share my status' and view the status' of others. Aside from the personal nuances that ones' status reveals (crazy, indifferent, nonsensical, or otherwise), I often find that, when utilized mindfully, they can be really inspiring. They're usually quotes that make me and the majority of those within my network say, "Hmmmm..." At least one of my "friends" has posted a status that is so on point with something that is going on in my own life, I'm like, "Dag, how do they know?", "Get outta my head!", or "Thanks for articulating that which I, for whatever reason, could not." My status updates have had the same effect on others, I've been told. As a writer, I think that is a large part of facebooks appeal to me: It provides me with a textual vehicle with which to reach out to people and share thoughts, ideas, revelations, questions, etc. and receive what nine times out of ten turns out to be very timely and poignant responses. It's therapeutic and, for me, behaves like an ongoing social case study into not only the idea that there are only six degrees of separation between each human being on the earth but even moreso, that we are more alike than we are different. There are just some things that as social beings we all can relate to. Facebook helps us relate.

(On a somewhat different note, my cousins had a "girls night" last night but I wasn't able to attend and I'm dying to see the pic's on facebook - ;0( Tuesday can't come soon enough!)

Ta-Ta! Be Well.

-Double Consciousness