Student Changes Facebook 9 Times A Day

Story by Will Sharpe 

| Published Nov 11, 2008

Hell-bent on keeping the Facebook community in-the-know regarding how his Wednesday was playing out, sophomore elementary education major, Allen Walker, changed his Facebook status a staggering 9 times over the course of 12 hours. 

Grace Wellington, a former roommate of Walker, cited concern for the well-being of her friend as early as 9:15 a.m.

“Nobody wants the Facebook status of a good friend to read anything like ‘Ashley is super hung over…ugh kill me lol!’ before the day is even in full swing,” Wellington said. 

“She made that status update at around 9:15 in the morning.  I was concerned just enough to send her a text message when it changed to ‘Ashley is soo SICk of it ALL…  :(’ about an hour later.”

Walker’s status would fluctuate frequently and unpredictably throughout the day. 

Following her routine “inside joke that only one of my friends will understand but everybody else should be aware of anyways” status update of “Ashley is WOW…those were SO big...lol SARAH!,” her statuses took on an increasingly pathetic tone that would progress through the end of the day. 

Her status updates would end on a sour note, as Walker made the decision at around 8:30 p.m. that “Ashley CANT wait to go Homaha this weekend…”