Facebook relationship status (public or private?)

[Zapookie]

My SO was the first one to change his relationship status to "in a relationship" in January or Feb of this year, if my mind serves me correctly. I didn't change it right away because I wasn't sure if he changed it because of me or not. I think we had a conversation about soon after that so I changed it two weeks later. And then he listed himself as single april 1st as an april fools joke (I was going to as well but he beat me to it LOL) and then he switched it back. And then we linked our profiles as "in a relationship with" in June or july? I was sooooooo overjoyed when he sent me the request... I had never had a boyfriend before and to be able to list it on my profile made me feel special, however sad that may be hahaha.

[Riyko]

When i was with my ex we waited about 5 months before changing our relationship status on facebook to in a relationship with their name. About 2 months into the relationship i changed my status on facebook to in a relationship, but it didn't bother me that he didn't want to change his status.

[Fyrestar]

My SO and I are linked on FB - we are in a relationship with "x" - he is very exclusive on his friends list, and mine is quite trimmed out but I do have allot still. I did ask him before I ever sent the relationship request - and he accepted it.

[greensweatergirl]

We don't have our relationship listed on Facebook.

There are definitely moments when I want to put it up and show off all our happy photos, but I'd like to be more private with this relationship, Facebook wise. When my last relationship broke up it was horrible to read all these "whaaa?" and pity comments, and even one "like" that was put on my ex's status.

Plus, I really like the idea of shocking the hell out of all the gossips by posting "married" out of the blue one day.

[13000km]

I'm one of those people with a fake relationship status. It says I'm in a relationship with one of my good girlfriends, and has been that way for years. We're both attached now but don't see the need to change it. His relationship status was married to a german girl (also fake), when we first met. He changed it back to single and later set it to private when we started to get serious.

Our relationship is not a secret though, there are pictures of us, my family and friends talk about us, and I talk about him in my status updates, so people who want to talk about it will talk about it anyway. I do see myself changing it to engaged or married when that happens, but at that point who cares about a status on facebook, I'd be married!

[floridaellen]

When my SO and I first got together, we were both in high school and obsessed with Facebook (we kinda still are!) so we put it up right away. It was actually really cute. And he was from a different school so it was a big deal.
When we got back together after our break, we didn't put it up right away. I think he still had his as Single and I had mine as In a relationship. We got back together on September 17th and didn't list as in a relationship with each other until November 6th (which I only remember because I just printed it for our scrapbook!). We had 23 "Likes" to it hahaha. He still has it hidden from his Dad though, which is kinda upsetting for me, but I understand it.

[Dar917]

Mine is private, and his still says single. I haven't questioned; my family can be weird about things too. Like my uncle married a woman from Colorado a few years ago whom he met through some pen pal thing in a magazine something or other (he doesn't use a computer) and the whole family went nuts and said she wasn't good for him and she must be after something and blah blah. 9_9 So far it has worked for them. My closer friends know through Livejournal and email. Probably we'll change it after we meet in person. To all the rest I say, Haters gonna hate! XD

[Shepard-Fowkes]

We changed our relationship statuses a couple months after we got together. At first we were going to wait until we met, but I really felt overjoyed and really wanted to share with the world that I'm with him. And the Internet is the best place to shout out that you care about someone . It wasn't a major pivotal moment in our relationship, but it was a sign that we were willing to show our family and friends that we're together. We both have ours public for that reason.

[Zephii]

Public, for us both
Im not sure why we all care so much about facebook today :s, but my SO and I are engaged on facebook. He sent me the first relationship request back in the begining, I don't even remember when that was lol, but I recall being surprised. I've never been with someone who was actually proud of being in a relationship with me, so that was nice.

We "broke up" once, for April fools day. It was hilarious. His dad saw it and rang him at work all "what's going on?!" haha.

But yeah, I'd think it was a bit suss if both of us were on facebook and he didn't want people knowing we're an item. I have nothing to hide, and I don't want to ever again be in a situation where the person I'm with thinks I AM something to hide. So I don't think any excuse would be one I'd tolerate if it wasn't "I don't have a facebook".

[Haley53]

We "broke up" once, for April fools day. It was hilarious. His dad saw it and rang him at work all "what's going on?!" haha..

My ex and I did this, only we got "engaged." Many of my friends immediately copped on. A couple of his panicked, many more said "congratulations!", one went so far as to contact him and ask him what we would need once we moved in together as an engagement gift, and his father called to yell at him and ask him what the hell he was doing getting engaged to a girl he'd met for a week. My poor ex loathed me for it, whereas I was in stitches at how seriously everyone took it! I didn't expect that many people to believe it!

[Zephii]

My ex and I did this, only we got "engaged." Many of my friends immediately copped on. A couple of his panicked, many more said "congratulations!", one went so far as to contact him and ask him what we would need once we moved in together as an engagement gift, and his father called to yell at him and ask him what the hell he was doing getting engaged to a girl he'd met for a week. My poor ex loathed me for it, whereas I was in stitches at how seriously everyone took it! I didn't expect that many people to believe it!

Hahaha classic

[dukes2011]

We had a short phase where we weren't single but were not officially in a relationship either. Ironically we both took off relationship status so it just didn't say anything. Then he officially asked me out but it never came up because we don't plaster out lives on Facebook. After about of year of dating we made it "Facebook official" and it has been ever since.

[Kizuna]

The second my SO and I officially became a couple, he wanted to change our facebook status to "in a relationship". He was so excited about it! haha
In the beginning I was a bit hesitant because I thought of the possibility that my friends would tell my family about it. (since my family is very strict and judgmental)
But after being told about changing the privacy settings for some people in my contact list, I decided to accept it, even with our names attached to it.
But then one day, about 3 months into our relationship, he removed my name from the status...which made me sad.
Apparently his friend was snooping around and wanted to know more about me and was looking up my profile. I set my profile to very high privacy so he nor any of his friends could see it, but my SO still doesn't want to change it back. Oh well.

[yayagrl]

Though my SO and I both have Facebook pages, it was his request that we keep our relationship status off facebook as he'd rather not have the "whole world in my business" as he puts it. He also made it very clear that it's not because he's hiding me from anyone, although I didn't really think he was. He doesn't do much on facebook anyway besides play games. Also our relationship for now, since we haven't met, is a semi secret (mostly to family members) because 1) I haven't met him yet and I just want to be sure we're doing the right thing before I tell my family about him as they get naggy about my relationships (they still ask about my ex ugh) and 2) my parents won't approve of the age difference. So for right now though, I'm of legal age and an adult, I just haven't told them. This will change after our first meeting in July. Kind of a lot of info for just facebook status eh? lol

[Malaga]

We're not FB official. I never had a relationship status public, and neither did he I believe. I'm quite private about that, those who I'm close with know what's up, those I'm not, well it's none of their business really. I do entertain the idea sometimes as I'm very proud of him, but then I shudder at the thought of all those randoms getting nosy and involved.
We have our profile pics with one another, so I guess that's official enough.

I think one day if we get married, we'll just publish our status as 'married' and everyone will be like "wait, what?"