What's in a status message?

With the craze of social communication and networking catching faster than fuel catches fire, finding people who disagree with my view that the internet governs a large share of time for these socially active people, will be difficult.

This medium has undoubtedly become a treasure chest of consumer insights and a window of candid self-expressions with vivid descriptions of emotions ranging from exasperation, indifference, chagrin, disappointment, heartbreak, ecstacy, confusion, nostalgia or even the state of 'randomness'.

And starting from blogs to posting comments to writing on scrapbooks and walls, users are celebrating their present with a dialogue box that gives them 140 'characters' to verbalize their mental, physical, social, geographical state of mind--active or passive, potential or kinetic --WHICHEVER!

But before twitter came under the hype-light (its being written about on every other website or article or blog ), there was one more such avenue, which didn't have 'followers' or a special portal --the messenger: be it MSN or yahoo or gtalk~
the status message space and
the display pic
both give you the same 'freedom of expression.' or should i say, 'kingdom of expression': quotes, links, visible / invisible, vacation pics, cropped pics, random pics, just-like-that pics, movie dialogues, poems and the list goes on...

Reminds me of Shakespeare's "What's in a name?" Today, we can ask, "What's in a status message?"

Do share weird / funny things u may have posted as ur status msg.