Is not. I don’t see a reason to restrict how people want to express themselves. Happy Thanksgiving, Dan and Jen!
and i still don’t hunderstand all the hoo ha over this
Myspace. Facebook. Xanga.
Really. Who gives a damn? :]
its annoying sometimes. but i kinda ignore it for the most part. haha. *shrug*
No “is” leads to a greater variety of sentence structure.
I wouldn’t care but prefer no “is”. I would have more choice to choose what I want to put in there.
Is. Okay, I really don’t care.
keep the is and be creative people!
no is. but it is fun to work with the restraint
IS is fun
It is what it is.
No is I’m not into this is business
Presvlisa, we can be more creative if we don’t have to use it. The more words they supply, the less creativity we’re allowed in developing our own format.
It’s like those refrigerator magnets. The less you have, the more your lines all sound the same.
Myspace dropped their “is” too.
NOT IS. when every sentence starts with DARLENE IS ________. It gets inflexible when i want to put DARLENE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE STATUS UPDATE.
Yeah. That’s my beef. Let’s make accurate grammar happen!
:shrug: Don’t care.
Dan is seriously running out of things to blog about this evening.
is
well, to answer your question, i’d need to know what your definition of the word “is” is.
awe.
i liked the “is”
Some people just need to give the is a chance.
NO IS!
Is is what it is…or was…RIP IS RIP. I’m glad to see the compulsory is go, though.
No is. It annoys me, so I’ve taken to typing things in the status box that don’t even make sense with the ‘is.’
HAHAHA!!!! “Witness the creativity! > Nick wants a sandwich.” oOoOo LOLOLOL IS I mean, NO IS! IS!
Natalie is can’t wait to get her test scores back.
is, always is. people just need to learn how to phrase an update with is. maybe they are too lazy or too stupid, who knows, not I. Or maybe in the rush of things it’s just confusing. o well. life moves on. and people will forget about this in a week.
…or not facebook?
Doesn’t matter. People just don’t know how to write creative anymore.
I know nothing about Facebook so I have know clue what IS and IS NOT is refering to. And really, I don’t care!
shouldn’t thatbe “is not” hmmmmm.
i’m glad its gone. its so annoying. then again i can speak the english language well enough to know how to get around such an obstacle. but still. that ‘is’ …IS so annoying ;D <3
people is retarded.
oh dear
I’ve deleted my Facebook, boo hoo hoo.
ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I dont have a facebook so I dont know what IS is
Exactly what makes this such a big issue?
Shonbori is not liking the constraints of the word ‘is’ and refuses to tell you how she’s actually doing until it is removed. D<
I’d love to see that annoying “is” removed. ”Is” is restrictive!
No is. No thank you.
what is not is sign kind of confusing
NOT is. !!!!
not is,
(as if I really cared)
François is delighted that he is no longer constrained by the use of “is” any more. Although referring to himself in the third person is disconcerting.
is. Challenges make like interesting. I’d be fine with removing the ‘is’ being some obscure hidden option, but I like having the default be ‘is’.
Krisztina is dreaming of a better life.
I just opened a Facebook account the other week, so many people I know on it, but I dont much care for it Whateva
is or is not?, IDK.
Considering I deactivated my facebook account because it was too much like MySpace… I don’t reall care anymore. But I do remember it being aggravating, although everyone appraised me for being the most creative status message creator. Amazing how virtually any desire can be turned into a state of being. =]]
†Cryssie♥Leah™
Not is.
If you like ‘is’ so much, add it in yourself.
That is the question.
I hardly use facebook, I hardly get any messages or posts so it does not matter for me
Not is. Sometimes I want my status to be “should be…”.
Happ Thanksgiving!
i hated that damn is
LOL
To IS or not to IS. That is the question.
I’m a not IS person myself.
Not is! Glad to have it gone, but I’ll miss it a bit too.
Who cares? I don’t use Facebook and do not plan to start. Xanga is more than enough for me.
Is.
no is.
Well they have caved to every other stupid suggestion anyone has had in the past year so why shouldn’t they cave to this one? Why don’t those idiots who want this stuff just go over to Myspace?
not is.
I think that those who have been campaigning for the lack of the “is” are the ones who are grammatically immature and have trouble navigating with it. There are always people who are unable to express what they want to say with that pesky little “is” there, which is pathetic. It’s not that hard to figure out what you want to say with that still there.
I actually did like having the IS. It made me consider what I was going to write and think a bit more creatively about it…
hmm.
Maybe I’ll keep using the IS
*HUGS*
LMAO everyone’s so upset. I think the “is” makes sense because it’s your “status”. As in what you “is” doing at the moment or where you “is” at. If people want to express their mood, there are tons of emoticon apps. Some people is just too stupid to know how to be creative, like the article says.
not is!! I’ve been waiting for this day since I got a facebook!!!
Hi, Dan. Although I agree with Flaubert’s point; that putting the “is” constraint pushes some creativity, Jimmish is perfectly happy to operate within (or without) whatever constraints are there on the site.
It’s a little surprising to find that 64,000 people are so upset regarding something so small.
blessings…jim
Actually, I kind of like the way the ‘is’ forces me to be creative. BUT I am so tired of people just ignoring it and writing “JC is can’t wait till saturday”. “Talley is omg i had the best night!!”. True examples, there.
You is, my honey honey honey….
I is your bee….
Never mind the verbs, we need some musical note thingys on the keyboard, crotchets, quavers, that kind of stuff.
no is
lol
I saw that group on facebook… I honestly care only about 5% maybe, which means 95% of me does not care at all. Happy Turkey Day my fellow Americans. To the rest, happy regular day
Daniel (doubledb)
leave it how it is i suppose
NOT IS!
Not is.
I don’t care if it’s there or not.
I just ignore it… and write whatever I want.
Do you have a facebook, Dan?
Is NOT!!!!
um. does it really matter all that much?
Don’t use facebook
I don’t like the “Is”
No is!
Not is. I can’t stand how some people couldn’t handle writing in the proper tense.
I’m kinda glad they finally did that, as it will keep people from having grammatically incorrect statuses. On the other hand, it was fun to try to think of creative ways to state things because of that darn “is”.
Stuart is does not care.
Don’t people realize that you can use is to say the same thing?
Stuart hates cheerleading. OR Stuart is a hater of cheerleading.
I think personally, I’d like them to keep it just to spite the morons who are making a big deal out of it.
drop the is
it’s better i think….
mike is doesn’t care one way or the other.
mike is thinks there are more important things to fret about.
NO IS Make it happen, Facebook Admins.
No is!!!
I is
That depends on what the defintion of “is” is.
I don’t do Facebook or MySpace. At my age, I’m lucky to have partly figured out Xanga. So I don’t care what they do.
Neither. No ising.
IS…it makes people think of how to word things differently when trying to form a sentence to put in the status box. challenging? of course.
I’m on many “social networks” the wildest one would be”myspace” though I have been invited to ones wilder than that
is not
*scratches head. sure!
> ….the conflict makes no sense to this ol’ noggin…. Just because the semi-literate who know not how to use ‘is’ seem to predominate c-space is not….*
Comments (98)
yes
not is.
there should be freedom of tenses.
Is not. I don’t see a reason to restrict how people want to express themselves. Happy Thanksgiving, Dan and Jen!
and i still don’t hunderstand all the hoo ha over this
Myspace. Facebook. Xanga.
Really. Who gives a damn? :]
its annoying sometimes. but i kinda ignore it for the most part. haha. *shrug*
No “is” leads to a greater variety of sentence structure.
I wouldn’t care but prefer no “is”. I would have more choice to choose what I want to put in there.
Is. Okay, I really don’t care.
keep the is and be creative people!
no is. but it is fun to work with the restraint
IS is fun
It is what it is.
No is
I’m not into this is business
Presvlisa, we can be more creative if we don’t have to use it. The more words they supply, the less creativity we’re allowed in developing our own format.
It’s like those refrigerator magnets. The less you have, the more your lines all sound the same.
Myspace dropped their “is” too.
NOT IS. when every sentence starts with DARLENE IS ________. It gets inflexible when i want to put DARLENE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE STATUS UPDATE.
Yeah. That’s my beef.
Let’s make accurate grammar happen!
:shrug: Don’t care.
Dan is seriously running out of things to blog about this evening.
is
well, to answer your question, i’d need to know what your definition of the word “is” is.
awe.
i liked the “is”
Some people just need to give the is a chance.
NO IS!
Is is what it is…or was…RIP IS RIP. I’m glad to see the compulsory is go, though.
No is. It annoys me, so I’ve taken to typing things in the status box that don’t even make sense with the ‘is.’
HAHAHA!!!! “Witness the creativity! > Nick wants a sandwich.” oOoOo LOLOLOL IS I mean, NO IS! IS!
Natalie is can’t wait to get her test scores back.
is, always is. people just need to learn how to phrase an update with is. maybe they are too lazy or too stupid, who knows, not I. Or maybe in the rush of things it’s just confusing. o well. life moves on. and people will forget about this in a week.
…or not facebook?
Doesn’t matter. People just don’t know how to write creative anymore.
I know nothing about Facebook so I have know clue what IS and IS NOT is refering to.
And really, I don’t care!
shouldn’t thatbe “is not” hmmmmm.
i’m glad its gone. its so annoying.
then again i can speak the english language well enough to know how to get around such an obstacle. but still.
that ‘is’ …IS so annoying ;D <3
people is retarded.
oh dear
I’ve deleted my Facebook, boo hoo hoo.
ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I dont have a facebook so I dont know what IS is
Exactly what makes this such a big issue?
Shonbori is not liking the constraints of the word ‘is’ and refuses to tell you how she’s actually doing until it is removed. D<
I’d love to see that annoying “is” removed. ”Is” is restrictive!
No is. No thank you.
what is not is sign kind of confusing
NOT is. !!!!
not is,
(as if I really cared)
François is delighted that he is no longer constrained by the use of “is” any more. Although referring to himself in the third person is disconcerting.
is. Challenges make like interesting. I’d be fine with removing the ‘is’ being some obscure hidden option, but I like having the default be ‘is’.
Krisztina is dreaming of a better life.
I just opened a Facebook account the other week, so many people I know on it, but I dont much care for it Whateva
is or is not?, IDK.
Considering I deactivated my facebook account because it was too much like MySpace… I don’t reall care anymore. But I do remember it being aggravating, although everyone appraised me for being the most creative status message creator. Amazing how virtually any desire can be turned into a state of being. =]]
†Cryssie♥Leah™
Not is.
If you like ‘is’ so much, add it in yourself.
That is the question.
I hardly use facebook, I hardly get any messages or posts so it does not matter for me
Not is. Sometimes I want my status to be “should be…”.
Happ Thanksgiving!
i hated that damn is
LOL
To IS or not to IS. That is the question.
I’m a not IS person myself.
Not is! Glad to have it gone, but I’ll miss it a bit too.
Who cares? I don’t use Facebook and do not plan to start. Xanga is more than enough for me.
Is.
no is.
Well they have caved to every other stupid suggestion anyone has had in the past year so why shouldn’t they cave to this one? Why don’t those idiots who want this stuff just go over to Myspace?
not is.
I think that those who have been campaigning for the lack of the “is” are the ones who are grammatically immature and have trouble navigating with it. There are always people who are unable to express what they want to say with that pesky little “is” there, which is pathetic. It’s not that hard to figure out what you want to say with that still there.
I actually did like having the IS. It made me consider what I was going to write and think a bit more creatively about it…
hmm.
Maybe I’ll keep using the IS
*HUGS*
LMAO everyone’s so upset. I think the “is” makes sense because it’s your “status”. As in what you “is” doing at the moment or where you “is” at. If people want to express their mood, there are tons of emoticon apps. Some people is just too stupid to know how to be creative, like the article says.
not is!! I’ve been waiting for this day since I got a facebook!!!
Hi, Dan. Although I agree with Flaubert’s point; that putting the “is” constraint pushes some creativity, Jimmish is perfectly happy to operate within (or without) whatever constraints are there on the site.
It’s a little surprising to find that 64,000 people are so upset regarding something so small.
blessings…jim
Actually, I kind of like the way the ‘is’ forces me to be creative. BUT I am so tired of people just ignoring it and writing “JC is can’t wait till saturday”. “Talley is omg i had the best night!!”. True examples, there.
You is, my honey honey honey….
I is your bee….
Never mind the verbs, we need some musical note thingys on the keyboard, crotchets, quavers, that kind of stuff.
no is
lol
I saw that group on facebook… I honestly care only about 5% maybe, which means 95% of me does not care at all. Happy Turkey Day my fellow Americans. To the rest, happy regular day
Daniel (doubledb)
leave it how it is i suppose
NOT IS!
Not is.
I don’t care if it’s there or not.
I just ignore it… and write whatever I want.
Do you have a facebook, Dan?
Is NOT!!!!
um. does it really matter all that much?
Don’t use facebook
I don’t like the “Is”
No is!
Not is. I can’t stand how some people couldn’t handle writing in the proper tense.
I’m kinda glad they finally did that, as it will keep people from having grammatically incorrect statuses. On the other hand, it was fun to try to think of creative ways to state things because of that darn “is”.
Stuart is does not care.
Don’t people realize that you can use is to say the same thing?
Stuart hates cheerleading.
OR
Stuart is a hater of cheerleading.
I think personally, I’d like them to keep it just to spite the morons who are making a big deal out of it.
drop the is
it’s better i think….
mike is doesn’t care one way or the other.
mike is thinks there are more important things to fret about.
NO IS
Make it happen, Facebook Admins.
No is!!!
I is
That depends on what the defintion of “is” is.
I don’t do Facebook or MySpace. At my age, I’m lucky to have partly figured out Xanga. So I don’t care what they do.
Neither. No ising.
IS…it makes people think of how to word things differently when trying to form a sentence to put in the status box. challenging? of course.
I’m on many “social networks” the wildest one would be”myspace” though I have been invited to ones wilder than that
is not
*scratches head. sure!
> ….the conflict makes no sense to this ol’ noggin…. Just because the semi-literate who know not how to use ‘is’ seem to predominate c-space is not….*
Peace
The is on there is really annoying