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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by nommm-nommm on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:28PM (#13478520)
2005? Nope and no and no way in hell.

First of all, mini-feed launched in Sep, 2006, according to a TechCrunch post from that time. That was the real time Facebook started to be anything near what it is today, and certainly well before status updates.

I first noticed people using status updates in March 2008, how do I know month and year, you ask? because there was serious shit going on on my life at the time. And I remember reading "X is blah blah blah" for the first time while I was going through my shit. It was new enough to notice. I'll conceed that the "status feature" may have existed a year before I really noticed it, so we are still at early 2007 two years earlier than 2005.

I also do recall the criticism of "you're copying Twitter" as a sibling posted.

I remember using the brand new Facebook chat about April or May 2008, FWIW.

Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by Semaphor on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:13AM (#13479669)
My first status post on facebook was 2006-09-05

edit: 2006, not 2016.

Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by andrewksl on Thursday January 26, 2017 @10:49PM (#13497583)
Went back to check, and you're totally right. Not sure how I remembered that so wrong.