my life in status updates

Does anyone else out there think in Facebook status updates?  I don’t actually post status updates very often.  I tend to be more of a Facebook troll.  Or I use it to promote my blog.  But sometimes I find myself processing the events of my day in status updates.   Like this morning, for instance.  I met up with a potential client at a coffee shop in Beacon Hill and I drove past the place 3 times before I found it.  And then, two hours later, I found myself thinking “Almost missed my interview this morning.  Note to self: Next time check the map before you leave.”    Or when the sun emerged in force this weekend, one of my first thoughts was “50 degrees… flip flop weather!  #lifeinseattle.”  

Do you ever find yourself doing this?  It’s weird, right?  I don’t know what to make of it.  Maybe it’s just an inevitable result of being so thoroughly saturated in social media.   But I still find it odd, if not mildly unsettling.   Why am I wasting my time coming up with dull, completely inane status updates that I’m never going to post?   And why do I feel so validated when I actually DO post something and a bunch of my friends “like” it.   It’s like I finally get to be popular or something.

Gotta admit this was a good one!

Maybe it goes back to being a good steward of the present?  I still find that challenging.  Or maybe the whole thing just makes me feel kind of pathetic and lonely?   Yeah, it’s probably that.  I don’t think there is anything wrong with Facebook and I didn’t swear off of it for Lent or anything like that.   But I dug up this old article from Newsweek several years ago and I think Steve Tuttell summed it up pretty well.  Go check it out.

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What do you think?  Are you on Facebook?  Do you post often?   Love it?  Hate it?  Do you think in updates like I do?  Tell me I’m not the only one!