Over the past few months, I've been having a lot of fun with my Facebook status updates. I particularly enjoy quoting song lyrics and seeing other people quoting similar songs back at me. That's a bit of fun. Recently a couple of people have mentioned that I do this rather a lot and implies that I spend a lot of time on Facebook to set the record straight, this post is about how I do this without visiting Facebook.

I forget if I signed up for a Twitter account before or after Facebook, but that's by-the-by. I didn't use it much because I don't know may people with Twitter accounts and so it's not a huge amount of fun. What is fun, though is that I can update my status on Twitter using instant messaging, specifically Google Talk. That's very cool, because (a) I don't have to visit a web page and (b) I'm usually connected to Google Talk using Adium (on the Mac) or Pidgin (on the PC).

Some bright spark invented an application for Facebook called TwitterSync, which somehow scrapes my status from Twitter and displays it as a Facebook status. I like this lots because it means that I can update my status as new ideas come to mind without being distracted by the cornucopia of notifications that usually await me on logging into Facebook.

As far as seeing my friends' Facebook status updates, I tend to do this, as I monitor most other updates to the world-wide-web, by following the RSS feed (for All Friends Status Updates) in Google Reader.

So that's how I do it!