Hello, So I've been thinking: a big problem with the Me Menu comes from the fact that there is not an universally recognized word for the act of microblogging. There are "tweets", "dents", and Facebook made the rather poor choice of using "status updates" (increasing the confusion with IMs) One thing that is universal, though, is how they are displayed: picture on the left, message to the right with the name in bold. So why not take advantage of the familiarity of this layout to make the purpose of the broadcasting field more evident? See the attached mockup. One of the reactions to the mockup will be "we don't have the menu item for customizing About Me anymore". Well, quite frankly, it is a "Preferences"-like item. Isn't those things supposed to be accessed quite rarely after the first setup? The same goes for the two "accounts" items in the bottom, is it really necessary to keep them there all the time, cluttering the interface? Thinking about that, and considering consistency with the sound indicator and the power indicator, I think it's better to just merge all those things in a "Preferences" item at the bottom. You will also notice that I added a "says:" to the broadcasting field. I thought it might be a good way to differentiate broadcasts from IM custom status, which are more like temporary descriptions. But I'm not entirely sure on this one. Thoughts?
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