It's nearly four o'clock on a Friday. That means time to down tools, kick back and relax with some great weblinks and distractions.

How are feeling about Facebook these days? Is your love fizzling out? In the wake of several high profile desertions, the BBC are asking whether Facebook is fizzling out. Bill Gates recently dumped the network after complaining he had "too many friends". Are you going to join him?

Meanwhile, in another corner of the web, recent research shows the true state of of the much hyped Twitter community.

A big study was released in the US this week showing how dangerous it is to text and drive. Risk of collisions, the research discovered, rocketting 2300% when a driver was SMS and steering.

To prove the point, the NYT TImes develop a cool simulator for you to see yourself.

For slightly lighter entertaining, we found this fantastically clever and simple Flash game. See if you can get to the dinosaur.

I want a version for my LG KP500 NOW. Surely this is a game made for a stylus?

When you think movies, you probably think Hollywood right?

But let us swivel your head in the direction of something quite different in the film world. The little screen, the one hiding out in your pocket. Yep, that's right, the one on your mobile. Because over in Japan (where else?) there's an innovative movie-making trend growing rapidly.

Oh Japan. Land of sushi, samurais and now pocket film-making (thanks Wired). Over there making movies on your mobile is a recognised art form and various festivals are starting to spring up around the world, with one coming up next month.

The idea is not to try and make a miniature version of a silver screen classic, rather to capture footage from angles and directions only something as neat and compact as your handset can.

Bearing in mind these movies are not only shot on mobiles, but are made to be viewed on them too, this is a film genre in its infancy that's set to intrigue and delight.

The video above shows two award-winning mobile movie makers explaining how to get the best out of your camera phone. And they show off a bit too.

Phone, camera, action...

Seems like Twitter is everyone's favourite new technology toy and the latest trend to emerge is Tweeting literary classics.

Think Joyce, Austen, Dickens, Lawrence... they're all poured into the Tweet condenser, whizzed around and come out the other side all nice and bite-size.

This isn't the first time we've blogged about the pros and cons of SMS length snippets. First we were fascinated with Twitter itself, then we scrutinised Blippr (the 160 character review site), followed by reporting the emerging mobile phone novella craze from Japan, and now this.

Whether you think the Tweets in question are any good at imparting intricacies of plot and characterisation is really by-the-by... we've come to the conclusion they're a lot of fun. Think digital haiku.

We had a go at doing a couple of our own...

Oliver Twist: workhouse orphan wants more, artfully dodges his demise with Nancy's help, finds long lost family and prospers.

and...

The Hobbit: Gandalf tricks Bilbo, Thorin & gang into treasure hunt. Elves, goblins, Gollum, Smaug they meet. Thorin dies, Bilbo rich.

Fancy doing one of your own? Leave it in the comments for everyone to see :)

Stuck for stocking-filler inspiration? Lovely as tangerines and chocolate coins are, there's only so much of those you can get away with before the family start questioning your imagination.

An incredibly popular festive gift - or indeed at anytime of the year - is a mobile phone. Here's how you can impress with a gift of a nifty handset and still have change left over for a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie...

Take a look at the Alcatel Butterflies handset (pink for the girls) and Samsung B130 (a more manly black and grey).

They're both astoundingly good value at under a crisp tenner each. Now that's what we call staying connected and being kind to your wallet.

For most of us text messaging is as much a part of everyday life as brushing our teeth. (Well, we hope it is!) Most of you will have resorted to substituting you for u, or to for 2, at some time. There's few better ways to get your message across in record time.

Texting and the inevitable use of 'txt spk' has come under fire in the past for dumbing down the English language. Particularly when it came to education and teaching, there seemed to be a genuine fear that we were hurtling towards an uncivilised future where vowels were disregarded, and 'proper' English was wickedly abbreviated by the questionable editorial judgement of the SMS generation.

But as mobile technology moved on, so predictive text increasingly became the norm. And while the airwaves were buzzing with impeccable spelling, something new and exciting was happening: the Book/Cool trend.

Predictive text isn't perfect, so when you write 'cool' usually the first suggestion given to you is 'book'. If this happens enough the meaning of 'book' gradually changes to adapt to the technology, not the other way around. As The Times says, it's easier for texters to reinterpret the meaning of a word than hit the options button repeatedly.

This evolution is being led from the front by teenagers and it's fascinating to see the profound effect technology can have on shaping written communication. Indeed, some linguistic experts say this inventive approach to language requires a high level of literacy in the first place. We like this new way of thinking. After all, if you don't know the correct meaning and spelling of a word, you're not going to be able to change its use very effectively.

Will these new words stay with us in the future? Will they become a permanent fixture in how we all speak? Or will they be dropped and forgotten?

At The Feed we think some words will stick as slang terms, but not permanently. What do you think?

Image courtesy of Leonard Low.