and.then.some Posted April 24, 2010 Posted April 24, 2010 LOL! I totally agree. My status is not displayed at all. It may appear "suspect", but that's better than "it's complicated". If you're married, sure. For boyfriend/girlfriend type stuff, it's really unnecessary. My cousin in Japan and Great-Aunt in California don't really need to know when my boyfriend has pissed me off. It's nothing but a trouble in paradise alert for the masses.
BL268 Posted April 24, 2010 Posted April 24, 2010 I have my relationship status on Facebook. But I'm very choosy about who I add, only people who know I'm in a relationship are on there anyway so if we were to break up it would just be the same as telling them. They'd find out eventually anyway so it wouldn't really bother me how they found out. I only use Facebook to keep in touch with certain people. I know of people who meet someone yesterday and have change their relationship status the next day. If it doesn't work out and they're changing it, say, 3 days later then it looks a bit silly in my opinion. When I first met my boyfriend I just took the "single" off my profile. It was about 5 or 6 months before I put "in a relationship" and a while after that again before I put his name. But, yeah, can see your point.
spookie Posted April 24, 2010 Posted April 24, 2010 this thread's got me worried that my boss' "single" status might not be up to date.
Jilly Bean Posted April 24, 2010 Posted April 24, 2010 Shadow - I thought we agreed you weren't going to check his FB account anymore? BAD Shadow, BAD! I don't put a lot of personal info on my FB. Since all the people who are my friends on my account ARE my real friends and family, they already know my relationship status, email, cell phone, hometown, and all the other personal info it asks you. And if they aren't privvy to this, then they don't need to be. I think the relationship status thing is age-dependent. It seems the 20-somethings like to fiddle around with it.
pandagirl Posted April 24, 2010 Posted April 24, 2010 I think this is just personal preference. A lot of people are "Friends" with lots of people who aren't really friends on facebook, including myself. I have a lot of friends who are in serious relationships, but choose not to display it on their profile, because we don't want people we work with, professional acquaintances, etc. to know what our personal business is. Also, when I first signed up, I saw my default status was "single." I didn't like that it was displaying my romantic status, so I just took the whole things off. When I did, I got wall comments like, "OHH YOU'RE NOT SINGLE? WHO IS HE?" egads! It's not "stupid" to put it up, but I would rather not, not because of an eventually break-up (which I can see would be an extra headache to deal with), but because I just don't want people in my business.
Author shadowplay Posted April 24, 2010 Author Posted April 24, 2010 Shadow - I thought we agreed you weren't going to check his FB account anymore? BAD Shadow, BAD! I don't put a lot of personal info on my FB. Since all the people who are my friends on my account ARE my real friends and family, they already know my relationship status, email, cell phone, hometown, and all the other personal info it asks you. And if they aren't privvy to this, then they don't need to be. I think the relationship status thing is age-dependent. It seems the 20-somethings like to fiddle around with it. Ha, no! I haven't checked it since I last wrote that and don't plan to. The whole topic just got me thinking.
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