I Guess Status Is Important

by Jessica Hickok on September 24, 2008

I’ve been told by my Aunt that I talk too much about other people in this blog and that I shouldn’t do that.  Well then…what else is there to talk about?!

So, in an effort to NOT talk about people in this blog post, I’m going to talk about people’s statuses.

I’m a big Twitter user.  No, it’s not because I like the feeling of people always knowing my bidness, but because I like knowing theirs.  I like knowing what my peeps are up to, it reminds me that my own crazy life is right in line with what would be considered “normal”.  I think of Twitter as the ultimate status update.  But then there is Facebook status updates, Instant Messaging, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, MySpace, and the three P’s…Plaxo, Plurk and Pownce.  (Just to name a few.)  I Googled the term “status update manager” and holy cow batman there were 10 pages of crap just for updating your status feeds!

I didn’t know that status was that important.  But as this online world grows tighter, I guess it is. I don’t use it, but there is the service of HelloTxt.  It seems to be pushed in the REALTOR world a lot.  What do you use (if anything)?  And, does it actually save you time or is it just another obsessive web 2.0 addiction?

I should look at it like this, if I keep my status updated it saves me several phone calls to my Mom. Time saver!  Now if I could just get my husband to obsessively update his status.

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Aaron September 25, 2008 at 6:29 am

Twitter user here. Status is important, I found that my Twitter usage went up ten fold when someone I knew IRL started using it regularly.

Now I just need to get a few more people to use it to spread the addiction.

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