Here's a fun way of creating a bit different status messages - just to spice it up a bit and create confusion or maybe discussion. I found it via a friend on facebook.
RULES:
1. Grab the book closest to you. Now.
2. Go to page 56.
3. Find the 5th sentence.
4. Write that sentence as your status.
The original instructions contains two more steps but that's not applicable for all social sites and feels a bit unnecessary to me as long as everybody know the rules. Here they are anyway:
5. Copy these instructions as a comment to your status.
6. Don't go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have - just grab the closest one
Here's an example from my closest book, the one that I'm currently reading - "Den siste tempelriddaren" in swedish or in english "The last templar" by Raymond Khoury:
"Naturligtvis ska vi undersöka det."
or in english
"Of course we will investigate it." |
Completely meaningless, which suits the swedish kind of humour very well.
I guess it is applicable for all kinds of social applications like Twitter, facebook, LinkedIn etc.
I think I'll start doing this from now on from time to time but maybe it has to be extended some way for us computer geeks to also involve electronic books, internet sites, blogs, or white papers.
So I'll update my Twitter with it right away. Probably no one will notice,
Ok, I admit it. I am boooored...
Well, what do you think?