Today, the world indulges in the existence of status messages. An era dawned where characters have limits, and paragraphs became a thing of the past (you would even panic at the sight of a paragraph, and two would be enough to make you faint). And you may have seen these on almost every social networking site existing -- Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Multiply even.

It's a worldwide sensation.

Just when you thought it ends there, you'd find sites which compile all your social networks and gather your status messages -- Plaxo, Chi.mp.

It's not that the era of paragraphs have gone. But, it misses to compose lengthy blogs and put your thought and heart into them -- reviewing and stressing your points, hitting backspace a large number of times. Much like writing really.

True that posting status messages get really addicting. But after seeing THIS, the tweets and the plurks did not make any sense. Everything was a blur (except perhaps the mini-blog).

Now I'm trying something different -- a longer entry this time. Even though the 140-character era has dawned, here I am riding against the mainstream. I could do this again or not. The one-liner world is a craze and it's pulling all of us in.

[ Kapitan Wafu's Cut: This goes to everyone who still shed blood and sweat to their entries, who lay down their thoughts piece-by-piece which others have no time to read. This dude salutes all of you. ]