Patrick Moreau August 27, 2020

Top Facebook jokes status lines? Looking for Status Updates That Will Make You Laugh? Looking for some status update inspiration? I won’t bore you with stories about where these came from; I’ll just give you a list of funny and sarcastic statuses. I have tried to include the authors for the lines I did not develop on my own. And hey, if you know the source of an unattributed quote, feel free to leave that info as a comment at the bottom. “If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” – Posting, reading, and responding to status updates is an integral part of many peoples’ daily lives. However, the role of personality in predicting social responses to status updates remains largely unexplored. Based on the social enhancement and the social compensation hypothesis, we assessed the role of extraversion and social anxiety in predicting social responses to status updates.

Interestingly, the team found that loneliness levels did not depend on whether the students’ status updates garnered any comments or “Likes” from Facebook friends. One might assume that a lack of response could be considered a form of rejection, but the act of writing a status update itself might help people feel more connected, the researchers said. When crafting a clever status, Facebook users have a target audience in mind. Simply thinking about their friends (or at least their Facebook friends) can have a “social snacking” effect. Read more details on sad status.

One element of Facebook that we may not realize is how often we use the Like to affirm something about ourselves. In a study of more than 58,000 people who made their likes public through a Facebook app, researchers discovered that Likes could predict a number of identification traits that users had not disclosed: “Feeding people’s “likes” into an algorithm, information hidden in the lists of favorites predicted whether someone was white or African American with 95% accuracy, whether they were a gay male with 88% accuracy, and even identified participants as a Democrat or Republican with 85% accuracy. The ‘likes’ list predicted gender with 93% accuracy and age could be reliably determined 75% of the time.”

If you’ve ever wondered why some of your friends post the things they do on as a Facebook status, you’re not alone. In fact, it’s not just that you’re not alone, but that researchers want to know what Facebook statuses mean, too. Why do some people like to give a play-by-play of their divorce, while others just flood Facebook with photos of baby otters? Well, I don’t know why I post so many photos of baby otters. I just know that they make me happy. Okay? Not sure what your Facebook status says about you? Here, let science help. You don’t want all this research going to waste, do you? See additional info at http://status.desi/.