Instead of just adding a plain text update, you can select from feeling, watching, reading, listening to, drinking, or eating.
Their research is showing that plain status update posts don't seem to be effected by the reach drop to the same extent as photo, video or link updates, but it may be too early to draw any firm conclusions on this.
Perhaps Facebook should just be ripping this data out of plain text updates with basic natural language processing, but this is a start.
Once your friend circle is above a manageable amount of say, 6, you really can't know how people in your circle of friends will react to rude, lewd, or just plain crude updates, so don't do it.
His great grandfather had laid the foundations of modern neurology; his grandfather's Plain Words, now updated by Rebecca Gowers, should – more than ever – be compulsory reading for civil servants and editors.
Facebook's new visual activity sharing feature is currently in testing among select users both on the web and on mobile, and the company hopes that it will encourage users to share more frequently as they're no longer limited to plain old text updates.
The plain social network 'status update' has been superseded by the rush to share photos.
But he updates the plain vanillas with a thick coating of dark Belgian chocolate and flavorings like espresso, maple and caramel.
"Artfully designed, connected up with your smartphone, and full of features that work better than what it wants to replace," is how we described the Nest Protect update to the plain old smoke alarm/carbon monoxide detector when it launched in October last year.
Addingham Moorside, Fri to 17 Aug JT This is the launch night for a new residency from Daniel Avery, whose 2013 album Drone Logic was an ambitious 90s-facing record full of smartly dressed acid whose influences – Paul Woolford, Chemical Brothers – were as plain as they were intelligently updated.
