Vinay Menon
Help for the Facebook-status weary

Today we explore one of the most vexing problems of our time: Updating your Facebook status.

Remember when you first joined the popular social networking site? Remember how the, "What are you doing right now?" window never triggered a nanosecond of hesitation?

For the first few months, you would log into Facebook thrice daily, click on that rectangular box and breezily type whatever you were doing, feeling or thinking: "(Your name) is about to rake the ...

After nearly six years as the Star's daily television critic, Vinay Menon moved to the News pages May 6, 2008 to begin a humour column. From the GTA to outer space, he plans to document the fall of civilization one absurdity at a time. His column appears Tuesdays and Thursdays.

And read Vinay Menon on his Election Fever blog during the federal election campaign.

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