While I find Facebook to be a tad overwhelming with all it’s bells and whistles, I do think it does a snazzy job at bringing folks together and adding adorable little time wasters to our lives. One of those cute, strange, kinda useless Facebook actions is the upcoming “National Awesome Facebook Status Day.” on May 6th. The idea is that every day, your Facebook status describes your normal, average life and on this special day users are encouraged to spice up their “status.”As explained on the “National Awesome Facebook Status Day” page:

for one day, let your Facebook status live out the adventure you know you’ve always wanted. For one day, fight a bear. Rescue a child from a burning building. Go to the moon. Do whatever you want to—or at least tell the world that’s what you’re doing.

Is “National Awesome Facebook Status Day” a big way to in society? Not really. But perhaps in a very small, very silly way it is, by putting users in a better mood and maybe even inspiring some to actually make their fake status a reality.

With 14, 938 confirmed participants “National Awesome Facebook Status Day” is just one of the ways in which the internet gets people collectively doing stuff and that will never cease to amaze me.