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Facebook has a status update tool which allows users to announce to the world what they're doing. It's similar to the status message on an IM account, or the answer to Twitter's "what are you doing?" question, but with one difference: The word "is" is automatically inserted between the user's name and the status message, grammar notwithstanding. AllFacebook reported and Epicenter noted that the "is" magically disappeared overnight, so users could go about writing statuses about how they "need to sleep" or "can't wait to go home for Thanksgiving" without worrying about proper verb usage. But this morning, the innocuous article has returned, raining strife and confusion down on the almost 100,000 members of the Remove the "is" from the Facebook status (Official Facebook Petition) group. So, what's the story? Is "is" or isn't "is" automatically added? According to Facebook PR, they "don't have anything new to report on the 'is' in the status message." We're stumped. What is going on?
What is the status of "is"?
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12:24 PM on Tue Nov 20 2007
By Megan McCarthy
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I really hope the is's are gone. They suck... makes you have to think way to much!
@RyanB: And that would be terrible, I agree.
...Only in a post-Clinton world.
damn sample032 beat me to it. "What is 'is?'"
Argh! The 'is' is my biggest peeve about Facebook. They seriously need to do away with it.
It is still there.
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