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While I'd like to be able to choose the word myself, "says" "tweets" "mumbles" etc. this is a step in the right direction.

I don't think being able to set our own word would be difficult, would it?

This has been fixed! Thank you, Ping.fm folks, for adding the "adjust grammar" option. Now my Facebook updates are prefaced with "Kelly said:". Just perfect! Thank you for listening and doing something about this.

I'm with mattindy77. I've used TwitterSync for ages, and I've been very happy with its settings which allow me to change my prepend verb. (I like " twitters: ") Until more robust settings are included in Ping.fm for all services, AND until Facebook gets it together and creates this setting for status updates, can't this idea please be integrated into the current Ping.fm Facebook app?

I signed up to Ping.fm today because I love the idea, and because TwitterSync depends on TwitterIM which has been broken for more than a month. But...if this kind of checkbox-setting-customization idea can't be implemented here, I will go back to the standard Twitter Facebook app (though I'll be very sad).

Well, its not ping.fm's problem at all, as if you were to write that same mesage in facebook you'd get the same result. if there was a "says" prefix then you wrote an action as a ping you'd get:

Suchnsuch says "is doing his homework"

Solution: is to have either in the edit section of each network a prefix option

BEST SOLUTION:

a verb detector to prefix 'is' or 'has' and if "not" is 1st word prefix 'is' or 'was'

all other words i guess you could add ' says "' or a predetermined default prefix and a suffix of a quotation mark

EDIT:
Maybe even an advanced verb/sentence detector say you typed "been to the park" been is detected as a past action prefixing "has" present actions will be "is" future actions "will"?

as for when to prefix says... put quotation marks at start and end?

seems most logical to me.