When you open your Facebook page, you can see that your friends have updated their profile pages with witty status messages. Well, why should you be left behind, right? What you require is inspiration to come up with unique status messages for yourself. Derive content from your personal life and of people around you, and come up with something interesting to say. However, if you're still out of ideas, maybe the following status ideas can do the trick. Cool Facebook Status Messages Some tend to give personal updates and current events as their Facebook statuses. But a few chose to use funny Facebook sayings, words, song lyrics, etc., along with some cool status tricks as their status updates. Depending on what you wish to say to the world (as in your friends and family), choose from the following status messages that have been compiled for you to recreate into your own words. Facebook Special Symbols Emoticons There are many special emoticons that can be posted as messages on your friend's wall. Some of the many special symbol emoticons are given below: Fun Facebook Status Tricks When you look around, people on Facebook not only have the best status updates, but they tend to use some creative tricks to make their updates stand out. You might observe a heart (♥) or an umbrella (☂) in the status updates. There are plenty of cool Facebook tricks that you too can try to make your updates more interesting. For example, you can type your status updates upside down by using Flip Facebook Status or Rotate Text and Turn Your Status Update Upside Down and type in your status. Then you need to click Flip and you will get the result in the box below. Just copy and paste it in your Facebook status bar. Watch your friends tilt their heads to read your status update. You maybe aware of tagging friends in photos, but did you know you can even tag them in your status? Well, all you need to do is type "@username" and your friend will be tagged to your status update. There are no spaces before or after the tag, that is between '@' and your friend's name. Or else it won't work. You can even add events as your status. You just need to click on the icon below your status box that has a small number 31 on it. The calendar will open and you need to type in the title, location and the event date here. Once you complete adding the information, click on share button. This will help in posting the event on your wall as well as news feed. This is a very cool status trick that allows you to send personal invitations to some of your close friends. You can share some of your favorite music videos as your cool Facebook status. All you need to do is click on the small arrow pointing downwards under your status box. This will lead to a drop-down list, where you will find an option that says 'music'. Once selected you will need to type in the name of the song you wish to share and click the share button when found. That's all you need to do to share your favorite music pieces. The following table contains some interesting Facebook status art symbols, that you can use to add some creativity to your updates. Just copy and paste the art symbols to your status bar and see your boring updates transform into something full of fun!

Description	Facebook Symbol
Black Heart	♥
Boy with a Gun	(•̪●)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿'̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿ ̿""
Butterfly	ƸӜƷ
Charlie	☻/ /▌ /\
Cloud	☁
Cowboy with two guns	""̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿=(•̪●)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿'̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿""(ˇ_ˇ'!l)
Cross Sign	☨
Crown	♔
Diamond	♦
Empty Star	☆
Expression 1	๏̯͡๏ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶
Expression 2	⋋⋌٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(×̯×)۶(╥_╥)
Female	♀
Full Star	★
Heart	ಌ
Male	♂
Mimic	ಠ_ಠ ಥ_ಥ ☺ђέ«{^⌣^}»ђέ☺ ツ ｯ
Music Note	♩♪♫♬
Other Symbols 1	♐☎☏☪☚☛☻☺☹
Other Symbols 2	♨♧♥♤♣
Other Symbols 3	☃☝☞☟♎
Panda Expression	(●̮̮̃•̃)
Peace Sign	☮
Peace Sign Hand	─┐ ─┐☮ │▒│ /▒/ │▒│/▒/ │▒ /▒/─┬─┐ │▒│▒|▒│▒│ ┌┴─┴─┐-┘─┘ │▒┌──┘▒▒▒│ └┐▒▒▒▒▒▒""
Phone	☎
Sound System Music	iPod: ╔═══╗ ♪ ║███║ ♫ ║ (●) ♫ ╚═══╝♪♪
Sun	☀
Two Lovers	♥ (●̮̮̃•̃)●̮̮̮̮̃̃•̃̃) ♥ /█\ /█\ ♥ ||_ ||_♥
Umbrella	☂
Yin Yang	☯

Try these cool Facebook status sayings as well as add some entertaining art symbols to your updates. Your boring Facebook page will become a buzz with some funny and entertaining comments from your friends.