While users may over time start to adopt the likes of Facebook over SMS, especially as smartphones begin to push status updates and direct messages to the phone's homescreen in much more SMS-like fashion, it seems we're still a long, long way off yet.
Pushing the status quo further, researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada have suggested hagfish slime has the potential to become a fabric.
"It's those people who continue to challenge our thoughts about being 'acceptable' in society who are really pushing the status quo..
At Alghanim Industries, we pride ourselves on pushing the status quo in our own way, and our meritocracy-based style of management is a very big part of that.
"If you push the status quo, the status quo is going to push back".
The seven Oscar nominations it got were a suitable recognition of its envelope-pushing status.
You access your Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or Gmail accounts and you can bring in your Facebook network and push status updates from the actual bar.
Black Lives Matter protests have dared to push the status quo and speak for those who have been afraid to speak for themselves.
The only antidote, the only means to push that status up again, it seems, is to keep sharing more and more.
"Abbas pushes nonmember status at the U.N. — in Bibi's view, a unilateral act, so Bibi responds with one of his own".
Pessimists, however, abound, and instead of seeing the situation for what it is — full of opportunities, if one chooses to recognize them — they push a "status quo" line.
