Facebook Awakening »The Most Inspirational Facebook Status Ever Posted

Everybody loves posting their “status” on Facebook – I don’t doubt that. We read our friends' post about everything under the sun - from what they are eating, their current breakup, favorite underwear and whatever-what’s-on-your-mind stuff.

However, have you ever posted something, like a random emotional rant and got surprised the following day because of the amazingly inspiring comments from your friends?

I would call it Facebook Awakening. Read this comments thread, it's so inspiring! If your also inspired click "Like" or write whatever-what’s-on-your-mind on the comments section below.

News Update:

Facebook membership hits 500-million mark

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 03:01:00 07/22/2010

SAN FRANCISCO—The number of people using Facebook hit the 500-million mark on Wednesday, meaning one in every 14 people on the planet has now signed up to online social-networking service.

"As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post.

"This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world."

To celebrate, the California firm introduced an application that lets members of the online community "tell the incredible stories of the moving and interesting ways they've used Facebook."

Examples given by Zuckerberg included NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen jogging with Facebook fans during his term as Danish prime minister and a US woman using the service to battle breast cancer.

"Our mission at Facebook is to help make the world more open and connected," Zuckerberg said.

"Stories like these are examples of that mission and are both humbling and inspiring. I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago."

Blog envy is my motivation

Forgive me dear bloggers for I have sinned.
This blog is evolving because of envy.

Bloghopping eats up most of my free time to catch up on my favorite topics, news and for mining fresh ideas. While browsing, I frequently came across blogs that can totally blow me away; blogs with great design, interesting contents, magnificent writing style and alive with intelligent comments - blogs I envy.

Envy is one of the deadly sins according to Catholicism crap. Conversely, I have always felt that envy is the first cousin of motivation. It lurks somewhere hidden in my thoughts. When I say I admire other blogs and its design, deep down, what I really feel is that I wish I have those design talent and writing genius. It may be a sin, but it gives me the motivation and clue to what I truly want in this blog – and to improve myself. You always inspire me fellow bloggers.

Accordingly, I devoted efforts on improving this blog. Whenever I came across blogs with great design or a cute widget, my first instinct is to look for its source code to test it on my blog. I also want to learn bits & pieces about XHTML & CSS.

Here are some cool improvements I made which I want to share:

• My Table of Contents page: It took me three hours before I make it work. I’m a real dumb when it comes to code syntax. Thanks to Aneesh for the tweaking.

• Template: My first template was a blogger harbor template, so boring. Thanks to Ourblogtemplates for this “Spain” template.

• Feed Your Mind Widgets: Courtesy of Thefreedictionary

• My customizable shout box from : myshoutbox

• Other tweaking tricks at : bloggerbuster and bloggerplugins

• My header graphics was originally a wallpaper which I find interesting because of some yin yang symbol on it. I did some photoshop editing and use it as header. It’s quite large but I like it.

• For SEO hacks and monetizing, maybe later when I’m really serious about posting well researched posts. I believe content really matters.

Well, I don’t know how long I can make this blog alive but surely it will continuously evolve into something better – hopefully not all because of envy.

I will really love reading your comments about my blog or if you have a cool code hack you want to share, I’ll definitely appreciate it.

Let’s inspire each other!