Why would you?*
(And if they're going to have them, surely they should be a bit more varied, to express the myriad variety of human relationships, eg:
Status: A____ is sort of seeing someone she met on the internet but is not sure if it qualifies as a relationship yet or not
Status: A____ has recently enjoyed a passionate quickie with her not-boyfriend but friend-with-benefits, and is feeling mighty pleased with herself
Status: A____ is seeing a married man only on weeknights (but it's alright because his wife is also seeing someone else)
Status: A____ is happily married to the Eiffel Tower
Etc etc.
*As Bad Sarah will tell you, it's only asking for everyone you ever met to email you with annoying questions.
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I've just removed the thing from my profile.
A newly-wed woman I know decided to "unlist" herself as married to her husband, so of course Facebook then said: X and Y are no longer together. And everyone emailed her to say, WTF?
She said she did it so as not to make her single friends feel left out.
Ummmmmmm...
I did it back in the early days of facebook before I realized the implication.
Although some people don't seem to realize that they can REMOVE those 'relationship status updates' from thier profile if they choose not to advertise their new status.
I do regret putting mine so boldly, though.
I prefer to be status-less.
Heh. I agree it did annoy me when I changed profile to "in a relashionship" from "single" I had a few annoying questions from people I didn't care to answer to. But - at the end of the day - I wanted everyone to know that P was MINE.
Oh god Annie - I just had another laughing fit about that Eiffel Tower marriage crap - oh how twisted and wrong but compelling at the same time.
I took mine off cos I was sick of getting ads saying "Are you still single?!" with pictures of girls from Nuts or some such thing. I am currently statusless... I think it makes me look relationshiply enigmatic and mysterious...
I split up with my ex on Facebook. And it was quite handy actually. Got it out of the way. Everyone in our friendship group knew straight away. Saved a lot of awkward conversations months down the line. (I hasten to add that we had actually talked about this beforehand. We didn't just break up on Facebook! How very C21st. Even better than when the bloke dumps Carrie in SATC by post it note.)
Do you think the Eiffel Tower lady has a facebook page and on her status thingy she puts:
Married to a piece of inanimate metal?
Facebook....urgh.
It's all far too revealing for my tastes.
I'm paranoid that they might be selling my relationship information to the CIA.
The sad thing is I'm only half joking.
I removed all that relationship/religion/politics crap from a profile the other day, feeling very smug. I suddenly looked at it and wondered why on earth I wanted people to know all this about me without having to ask. Takes all the fun out of real life.
I haven't looked at my Facebook profile in months.
Isn't blogging slightly the same where you're letting people know things about you without having to ask?
At least it's not compulsory to put a relationship status in there.
B, that's just what I'm talking about.
Destructor, right, it took me a while too.
Me too RoMo.
Del, the ads make me very wary. And, split up with your ex on Facebook? Did you just change it to single? You are modern!
RoMo - ah, but to her it is not inanimate. (Freak!)
Bedshaped, I know, I'm still not sure about it. What's worrying is that I don't think you can delete your account entirely once it's created.
Stevious, I know, I know. It really wouldn't surprise me.
Fathorse - true, a good point. And if they've been out of touch for years, do they really care?
GSE, I don't use it that much, but then I can't get near a computer at work, which is when most people seem to use it.
Sar, interesting. I’d say it’s different in these ways
1. Blogs are often anonymous or semi-anonymous, Facebook accounts are usually people’s actual identities. (and more easily tracked down by the entire world, including your boss, your bank manager, etc etc, to whom you might not want to reveal such personal details.)
2.Usually blog posts give you more detail, a point of view, a back-story, whereas if you look at Bowleserised’s example up there, you can see the relationship status update on Facebook has such a basic format it can lead to misunderstandings.
3. There’s the question of privacy and what this data is used for on Facebook – look at Del’s comment, and I don’t think Stevious is that paranoid.
well that's me told...
Yes, I went off on one there. You can hit me next time you see me.
Just remembered this:
http://xkcd.com/355/
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