Song lyrics, political statements and feeling ‘sooo fed up’: how the Facebook status evolved over two decades
The year is 2007. Unless someone rudely unplugs the modem to make a phone call, the promise of an evening on the internet unfolds before me. Time to log into Facebook and share a life update with several hundred “friends”. How best to sum up my current state of mind? Here goes: “Katie Rosseinsky is addicted to chocolate digestives.”
This post is just one of many banalities from my teenage archive of Facebook statuses. “Katie Rosseinsky is alright,” I reassure my online network in a particularly evocative post. “Katie Rosseinsky is sound,” I declare boldly in another. On one October evening, I’m so excited about going to see Alex Turner’s non-Arctic Monkeys in concert that I mark the occasion with four separate statuses (they accrue three likes, one from my mum). But it’s not all good times. I also tell my public when I’m “so fed up”, “having a moan!” and even “hating
