For what it's worth, that was the one thing I really liked about the Facebook status messages -- the last bastion of the old IRC /me command.
Somehow, having your name at the start of the textbox (and not being able to erase it) seemed to force status updates to be terse and, well, third-person. I've noticed that just in the last few days, this beautiful brevity has completely disappeared.
[Edit: but I concede that it probably didn't work so well for other languages...]
Somehow, having your name at the start of the textbox (and not being able to erase it) seemed to force status updates to be terse and, well, third-person. I've noticed that just in the last few days, this beautiful brevity has completely disappeared.
[Edit: but I concede that it probably didn't work so well for other languages...]