Do you use status updates?

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

I vote for "a good bit", I try making fewer but better updates. Instead of just constantly posting links or pictures, they are fun but it gets annoying especially when you want to still have the notifications on to know what your friends are up to. Usually when I see that the same person has posted a lot I just skip them. When creating a status update it's more fun for others that you post something that's on your mind not just random stuff. I still like random as long as they are fun, but still it's better to not make too many status updates. So I post one each day, often nothing too important. It's still very fun and commenting on a status is a great way to meet new friends. So yeah, I use status updates a good bit and I like them.

[Envy 6,161]

On a rare occasion, but usually I feel like by updating my status I'm, I don't know... Making myself out to be so much more important than I feel I am? As I may have said before, I feel like a 'background' member. I will post in topics on occasion, but that's because I don't feel like that's bringing too much attention to myself... I'm just responding like everybody else. Status updates feel entirely different. Either way, sometimes I get overwhelmed by emotions enough to forget all of that and post one anyway. xD

[Shift 4,272]

I use them a bit, not too much, but when I want to say something, I normally go there.

 

That or bug people by commenting on their status a million times.

[Jokuc 8,173]

Yes I do. Quite often too.

 

I don't make status updates myself all the time but I read other peoples' updates very often. I like status updates, I often use them to contact people if I want to say something short that can be answered quite quickly, and I use messages if I want to send something private or something more important, maybe a message that is a little bit longer.

 

It's fun to have spam convos in status updates until they get locked :D

Edited July 28, 2013 by Jokuc

[Tual 152]

I'm not as here as much as I used to be, so my status usage has dropped. A lot.

 

But, I'm not used to using status thingies seriously, so...*Shrugs*

[Soundgarden 2,758]

Yes, very often as some of you may know

 

It's like dumping all your random thoughts in a small mini-thread. It's a nice way to have some fun and to have random conversations

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

I use it most of the times.

 

However, there are times when in statuses, there's an argument or a long pointless chatter going on where it overfills my inbox.

 

I participate when necessary, and most of the times, I find it ok.

[Lost 1,410]

I probably post more status updates than i do actual posts these days, i don't post loads but i do post a fair amount of status updates.

[ReGen 1,466]

I use them a good bit. I usually post links to songs I like a lot hoping that other people will like them too. I don't really think anyone ever checks them out, though. 

[Fluttermoon 192]

Sometimes I'll write up a status, but very sparingly. Although much more than I'd never write a status for Facebook (which is... never). 

[Quilava 1,290]

I use them "often". Usually it's just to state a slight mood, while other times it's to show off a new graphic that I've made but didn't want to make a thread about.

[Zygen 6,066]

Considering I have tons of people added(Some who aren't onlnie hardly anymore) and I sometimes just feel like typing my mind even if nobody hears it, yes I use it quite a bit.

 

Heck even on days I don't say much I still say goodnight normally.

 

So yeah, i use them alot, and I read others as much as I can to, it makes me feel better acquainted with people here on the forums. I use to not use them, but after I did I just felt as I was more connected to people on the forums.

[NavelColt 22,880]

I'd say it's only about 20% of my useage here, if that; it may even be as low as 15%. I only make new statuses myself every couple days on average, and while my job description more or less requires me to scan them consistently as they happen, my actual interaction with them as a member is low. I throw in responses on a whim to some of them if I have a witty response or have a relevant connection to what they're talking about, but again, that's about it.

[BrainyBrony 252]

Sometimes. A lot of the time I just don't really have anything to say. It does get annoying when I wake up after a good night's sleep and see that I have 96 notifications all for status updates (True story). I don't get how people can update their status so much.

[Batbrony 16,055]

Oh yes, I use status updates quite a bit.  They're a nice way to just update folks on what's going on in your life without going into too much detail, plus they're a very convenient way to chat with other users.  Also it's always fun just messing around in a silly, nonsensical update with other members, and I honestly have some of my best times on the forums just goofing around with other users in status updates! 

 

So yeah, status updates, they're awesome, at least in this Derp Knight's opinion they are. 

[-Nobody- 519]

I use the status updates all the time, when I'm on here. It's one of my favorite features of the forum.

[Starshine 16,333]

Sometimes. I only make a status update once every few days, and most of the time I don't have anything good to say. Pretty much all of my status updates are meaningless ramblings or whether I got hungry or not. I like reading others' status updates, thought. People here are a crazy lot.

[Inactive01 5,299]

I love using status updates. Even when no one ever sees them or replies to them. If only we had mini-likes that were separate from forum brohoofs for that...

[Harmonic Revelations 8,835]

I swear to Cactus that I make like ten status updates a day, and reply to even more, so yeah, I'd say I use them quite a bit.

[Aura 120]

For the time being at least, my answer is sometimes.  I don't usually feel like I have something worth saying, though that might be more from my own timidness.  At least I feel I can say more here on mlpforums than I even could on Facebook.

[DubWolf 17,263]

I occasionally use them. I've been trying to post silly statuses so that when they appear on recent status updates, there will be a lol.

[Misty Shadow 7,866]

I don't use status updates often at all. I can rarely think of something to say.

[Vermillion 613]

yeah i use status updates all the time 

[Vermillion 613]

i use the status bar all the time

but im trying not to use it as much as i know how annoying loads of notifications are 

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I use them all the time when I have something to say that's not enough to write a whole blog about.

i use the status bar all the time

but im trying not to use it as much as i know how annoying loads of notifications are 

Not a issue, you can turn of status notifications(which I did, because it got annoying having a constant steam of notifications every-time someone posted a status)