Facebook Status Updates

I know I'm probably most guilty of this, but nevertheless, I have to rant.

What's with all of the completely boring facebook status updates?

Now some actually have potency. Or even a philosophical meaning. But somehow, "(BLANK) is off to wash his car" takes the frickin cake and is a sample of what fills the space of Facebook updates. Why do I really need to know that you're off to wash your car? Or more importantly, why is it a necessity to write that you are bored and doing nothing?

Now, once again, I will reaffirm that I'm sure I've committed this cardinal sin of Facebook Status Updates. So for an experiment I will analyse the last status updates of a rather sexy, funny, talented and completely anonymous over the last month...

• "Jamie cannot resist disney sales"
• "Jamie didn't go on eastlink today and feels naked"
• "Jamie updated his blog! it's back! learningthelingo.blogspot.com
• "Jamie went on eastlink again!"
• "Jamie spent a fair amount of time on the eastlink today"
• "Jamie just saw angus and julia! so freaking good!!!"
• "Jamie misses the sun and the sky"
• "Jamie: melancholy is today's special"
• "Jamie is sad to be sad"
• "Jamie wants some action"
• "Jamie actually finds it amusing that he hates study and yet rarely does any"
• "Jamie hates study and can't wait to be free"
• "Jamie wants to feel better"
• "Jamie is mourning the death of his red P plate"

So what can we gather from this? Well we have learned that...

• Jamie loves to update his Facebook status, no matter how important or frivolous the event
  
• Jamie likes exclamation marks!
• Jamie is not afraid to admit his depressed state, no matter how boring it is
• Jamie seems to love Eastlink
• And Jamie is not afraid of selfless promotion of his blog.

And so what insight does this gain into Jamie's persona?

Nada. Well, maybe a bit more. However, I will conclude with my new notion that it seems that the self indulgent nature of Facebook allows the blogger or what have you to be completely indulged in their own wonder that any simple thing that they write for their update is seen as not only completely fascinating, but absolutely necessary to tell the whole world!