"It's become a phenomenon where if someone posts a status update and 500 people see it and no one objects, it must be true, " says Jennifer Mirsky, 45, a digital content strategist in New York.

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Melissa Kit Chow, a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, designed a garment that will only fuel our Facebook addiction: Chow's "Like-A-Hug" vest gives you a physical hug whenever one of your Facebook friends "likes" your status update.

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Status update: It now appears that his prediction that the law was doomed was a prescient one.

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We each take a few seconds to consider a one hundred forty character blurb and then hammer out our reactions by way of a Tweet or status update.

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