Word: facebooked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...status-update field sounds like a self-conscious Carrie Bradshaw type who asks her boyfriend what he's thinking every time he's silent for more than five minutes. "I don't even know how to fill it in," Katie Tichacek says of the revised update box. An active Facebook user, Tichacek describes herself as "totally a status person - I like a quick and dirty read-through of what people are doing." Until yesterday, she was changing her status regularly with updates about what she was eating, reading or working on or where she was traveling - but with...
...Facebook wants to know what's on my mind. Actually, that's not true; so far, it wants to know only what's on some of my friends' minds. Facebook doesn't care about me yet, although it promises that will soon change...
...Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new home page - one that combines photos, links, videos and status updates and puts them in one big stream of information. I don't have the new layout yet, but a number of my friends do, and my news feed is suddenly full of frowny emoticons and questions like "What happened to Facebook?!?" (Read "25 More Things I Didn't Want to Know About You on Facebook...
...home page looks similar to the current one, but the biggest change is to the question prompting users to post status updates. Whereas the outgoing Facebook asks, 'What are you doing right now?' the incoming version asks, 'What is on your mind...
...Facebook's news feed becoming so introspective? "It's going to be more about the message you want to send to others than what you're doing at that very moment," says Meredith Chin, Facebook's manager of corporate communications. Or as the company described it in a blog post: "One way to think about this is as a timeline - or a stream. As people share more ... the pace of updates accelerates." Sort of like those annoying tickers that run across the bottom of cable news channels, but all the news is about people who never get off their couches...