People still have/use status messages? I haven't seen a status message in almost decades now probably, and definitely not in a work context. Signaling you are

People still have/use status messages? I haven't seen a status message in almost decades now probably, and definitely not in a work context. Signaling you are sick and working via a status message just seems like an odd choice. The pessimist in me looks at this as signaling for sympathy.