If you’re a member of the popular social networking site, Facebook, I’m pretty sure that you’ve witnessed more than a few of your friends/associates living out their lives via “status updates”. You know the types (you may be one of them). They update their “status” every hour on the hour with a single word, sentence, or quote from their favorite song/movie/tv show of the moment, all the while, giving us a quick glimpse into their personal and professional lives. Well, there’s a social networking site built entirely around this concept…Twitter.

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Its quite intersting. And for those that wish to “talk in color”, there’s Tumblr. It works almost the same as Twitter, but allows users to incorporate pictures, audio and video into their updates. Over the weekend, the NY Times explored the attraction behind both sites in this article.