A social media collaboration is â¨commemorated in a new collection When George Toles, 72, joined Facebook in 2008, it was only to keep an eye on his kids. He found the medium dull but had an idea how to make it more interesting. Thatâs when he began work on what would become Status Update (At Bay Press). âIt occurred to me that it might be possible in this bargain basement, come-one-come-all medium to do something unusual, fanciful, creative,â says Toles, a Winnipeg-based film and literature professor and screenwriter, whose credits include The Saddest Music in the World and Edison and Leo. He made a daily commitment to create a micro-narrative of one or two sentences in his Facebook status updates, a practice he still maintains.