Facebook Relationship statuses

You and your partner have now reached the stage in your relationship where you now want to make it official that you are a couple. In this day and age that means changing your relationship status on Facebook. I am part of the demographic that doesn’t like putting the person you are in a relationship with on Facebook. The reasons why are listed below;

Facebook is a total invasion of privacy, even if you are not on Facebook pictures of you can be littered of you all over your friend’s profile. Not everyone needs to know your business, everyone should not have to know your business so displaying who I am in a relationship with to people who I went school with and hardly spoke to, people who I say two words to every day at work (morning and good bye), and random people who I went University with do not need (to or is it vital for them to know) who my girlfriend is. The only people who need to know our family and close friends who don’t need Facebook to tell them.

You know that couple who every week on Facebook are in a relationship and then not in a relationship in a relationship then not in a relationship. Anyone who has ever been in a volatile relationship where you’re so angry you do anything to show your partner you don’t care when in reality you really do, putting your Facebook status to single and writing some soppy status about how ‘you’re going to be an independent woman and have no idea why you wasted so much time with your boyfriend’. It is a quick easy way to score hurtful brownie points only for you to get back together a few days later; it makes your relationship looks like a big joke when in reality I may not be, not having it on stops childish games like this and you being that couple.

Isn’t it a bit childish to put your relationship on Facebook? It arks back to when you was 15 and the ‘Will you go out with me days’ you don’t have to put a label on your relationship you both know how you feel and what your relationship is why does the whole world have to know?

It’s not nice when you break up with anyone; to have it broadcasted to hundreds of people on Facebook doesn’t help either. You know when you see someone’s relationship status go from ‘In a relationship to single and all the busy bodies come up with their words of wisdom even worse when you see people liking it.

Now I am not saying people who put who they are in a relationship with on Facebook are wrong to or criticising them. I am just putting it out there that there are valid reasons behind not wanting to do it, instead of the stereotype that the guy must be a player or he isn’t serious about his partner to put it on Facebook like when did Facebook become the bar of how serious you are about your partner.