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Liberate Media pays homage to the Facebook ‘is’ status option

April 30th, 2008

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Liberate Media is going back in time today, way back to when the ‘Facebook is’ status option was not optional.

More than 160,000 users wanted to remove the ‘is’ status and even a Facebook group was created called β€œPetition to Get Rid of β€œis” from Facebook Status Update!”.

On the night of November 20th 2007 they got their wish: the ‘is’ in Facebook status updates was removed.

Have a look at the comedy video from crackle below that pays homage to the Facebook ‘is’ status. Be warned there is some strong language and content that may offend.


From Crackle: Facebook

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