In the next few weeks, Facebook will be rolling out a feature which lets you tag fellow Facebook users, groups, fan pages, events and applications in your status updates and other posts by typing the @-character (Twitter, be afraid). Here’s how Tom Occhino, software engineer at Facebook, explains the feature.

Time to fess up and tell your Facebook friends what kind of an “ass” you are. Choose from one (or more) of the following assicons…

Facebook’s live Michael Jackson memorial stream which coincided the King of Pop’s funeral service turned out the biggest live Facebook event in history. According to the latest but not final stats, 500,000 status updates were posted, 300,000 users logged in using FB Connect and CNN, and approximately 6,000 status updates were posted per minute…

With Oscar-nominated director David Fincher in the talks for a Facebook pic about the founders of the social network, I was inspired to dedicate this Status Saturday to one of my favorite movies directed by him and written by Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club.

Want to try something special? Good! Next Monday, start with the Facebook status “is blue“. Then the day after, use “is grey“. Some of your friends will start to wonder what color you’ll be on Wednesday, but then you’ll surprise them with the status update “is grey too“.
No more colors on Thursday, but the status “doesn’t care about you“. That’s where …

A few weeks ago the Blu-Ray edition of Frank Miller’s Sin City was released. I can’t wait to see this movie again in High-Definition… but then I don’t own a Blu-Ray player so it’s going to be a pricey event. Anyway, the release inspired me to take some quotes from the movie and turn them into the following 23 Frank Miller-style status …

For this week’s Status Saturday, we hand-picked 8 funny Facebook status updates from the yet unpublished book “The Funny Facebook Status Updates Book” by Gary Carpenter. The Funny Facebook Status Updates Book will -if ever released- include 100 funny status updates that “will give you inspiration to upset the status quotes”. Here’s a little preview already…

Scroobius Pip & Dan Le Sac is a British electro/hiphop duo that produces tight beats with brilliant lyrics on top. In one of their early songs, “Thou Shall Always Kill” (see video below), Scroobius Pip recites an alternative and rather cynical set of “commandments” applied to modern age pop culture. I thought they’d make good status updates…

For this week’s Status Saturday, we offer you 15 status updates related to Facebook itself and its popular features, like poking, statuses and tags. Don’t forget to change the he & she, or him & her accordingly!

Shiny Shiny editor Susi Weaser sums up the ten worst Facebook status crimes, while admitting she’s guilty of all of them. The list eliminates about 99% of potential status updates, but there’s nothing wrong with a little deviant behaviour every once in a while. No matter how hard we try, we all commit some these offenses. What are your most common violations?

No better theme for our saturday status series than “going out” & “party”, so here are no less than 33 Facebook status updates you can add to your profile to alert your friends you’ll be making an assault on the dancefloor tonight.

Two weeks ago, we posted a simple tool that flips around any words you feed it 180 degrees. For our third Status Saturday, we came up with a few example status updates that refer to the use of flipped text. Think about it, what kind of stuff can do upside down? Add your own ideas in the comments.

The marketing team behind the Zack Snyder movie everybody and their parents are talking about, Watchmen, made a little Facebook application that changes your status message to a few selected quotes from and references to the just released superhero movie based on a 80s comic book.

For today’s collection we tried our best to find clever status updates that make you reflect a bit. The answers to some of these questions may seem obvious at first, but let’s see what kind of comments they provoke from your Facebook friends.