With Facebook statuses, MySpace statuses, Tweets and Indy.com status updates, I’m getting tired of making up some amusing way to say that I’m in the shower.

Lately, I’ll stick to one site and ignore the others. Or half-update the others. Or ignore them all.

But what’s the point? Do all my friends on Facebook really care about each update? (OK, I don’t really want to know.) What I do know is that I treat statuses like a supermarket magazine: I want to sift through as many as possible to get an idea about everyone’s lives. If one catches my attention, I’ll actually read it.

And I know now that CNN and Facebook have it figured out. Status updates = the same idea from different people, just posted at different venues. So why not channel them all into one pool when a monumental event is happening? Like, say, a woman wearing an oversized gray hat? While singing the national anthem at an inauguration?

When I saw Aretha’s headgear, my first instinct was, “Oh, time to write a witty status update. No one will think of that.”

But when I traveled to Facebook with visions of gigantic bows bouncing around in my head, I noticed a “via CNN.com live” tagged onto a friend’s status.

Intrigued, I clicked on the link, realizing that I was entering what was essentially a chatroom. Once I was in the room, a video feed revealed how CNN was watchin’ the inauguration, and, well, we just started commenting.

I had the option of reading only what my friends posted or seeing what everyone was posting. The latter was overwhelming, so I went back to reading what had become a mish-mash of serious messages expressing tears, and less-than-serious comments about Chief Justice John Roberts’ placement of “faithfully.”

The room became so popular that at one point, when I mistakenly closed out of the site, I had to wait a few minutes before it would let me back in.

The inauguration became the first news event where I wanted to let my statuses commingle, and I actually didn’t comment much. Instead, I read what my friends were saying — and saying instantly — about history.

And hats.