These offerings let you update your status by "checking in" somewhere.
If one of your goals is to be more active in social media, use this time to set reminders for yourself on a weekly basis for when you will update your status or check on your profiles.
You would think that by now you'd be able to update your Facebook status with voice, but you can't.
Your Facebook notifications work with Notification Center in Mountain Lion, and you can even update your Facebook status from within Notification Center.
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To that end, do update your online status immediately, on LikedIn and possibly on Facebook too, if you have lots of professional contacts among your friends there.
We also showcased several innovations from the intersection of fashion and technology -- a light-up Twitter dress, a pair of "Social Denim" jeans that let you update your Facebook status on the fly and a brilliant "Rocking Knit" chair that uses kinetic energy generated from the chair's gliding motion to knit a winter hat while you sit.
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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.
That advice has become so ingrained that people assume the axe is going to fall as soon as you Tweet something critical about your manager or write a Facebook status update chronicling the ten reasons you hate your boss.
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When you do get that offer and accept it in writing, put a status update on your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles.
But for most families, talking about finances happens only rarely, and it is not socially acceptable to post the amount you are saving and investing as a status update on your Facebook page.
Your name will appear in the status update, but you are not associated with the Place.
If the status update is text-only, your friend's cover photo is used instead.
So, do your friends a favor and post a sad status update today.
The latter now means that when you receive or place calls to your friends, you automatically see their Facebook profile picture, latest status update, and birthday if it's coming up soon.
Integrate your phone with your social networks, and a phone call from a friend will pop up his latest status update.
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