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A code-savvy tipster tells us we had it right: The hated "is" in Facebook's status update is going away. This is according to a jargon-ridden post in Facebook's developers news feed. The post is a confirmation that the "is" will soon join "thefacebook.com," the Facebook guy and user privacy in Facebook's graveyard of cute inconveniences buried on its way to world domination.