Facebook relationship status (public or private?)

[Anolinde]

We used to have our status as dating on there public, but I felt like it almost started to be a bother, we'd fight and he'd change it and then I'd have to deal with the questions and so on. Always re-adding each other as spouses just to get changed again while fighting, was getting tiresome. And I started feeling like it was actually cursing our relationship, lol. Now we don't have it on facebook at all, though we are together and we're actually doing better than we ever have been. So I dunno....maybe there's something pressuring going on there....or something I can't comprehend.

[leonsfangirl]

I had my relationship status "In a relationship with.." before my So and i decided we would actually try being in a LDR. I'd split from my husband and was getting hassled by some male "friends". I told my So i was thinking of putting i was in a relationship and he said i could use him and he would play it up to whoever i wanted. Looking back it was something we both wanted but didn't know how to bring it up.
Then on our anniversary, he announced our engagement on his status and we changed our relationship status straight away. I think everybody can see it on both pages.

[Amelia]

my boyfriend was the first to change the relationship status which i thought was cute, our relationship is public, the relationship status just shows others that we are together

[kteire]

My SO and I put up our relationship status (which is public on both our profiles) after we'd been dating for over a year. The only reasons we actually wanted to have it up there were so men would stop bugging me (random friend requests aaalllll the time from random men I didn't know saying they liked my smile...) and so that we'll have lots of little bits of proof of relationship if we need it for visa purposes in the future. We don't really have anyone to hide our relationship from, we've met each others' families and friends

[squeeker]

It's kind of funny how my SO and I did it.. We basically became official by facebook. We liked each other before then, and cared for each other a lot and loved each other, and jokingly we changed our statuses to "in a relationship" a few times.. and then also just had them erased from our profile for a time being.. before we became official we already acted like we were in a relationship... then one day around August 31-September 1, 2010, he was playing around with his profile and was saying how he wanted to change his status to "in a relationship with... me!!" and once I saw he was serious I remember getting really excited and immediately changing mine to "in a relationship with him" and I remember being really excited and I remember later that day looking up long distance relationship stuff because I was so excited and I found this site!! lol I love having that status there though, I can't say how many times I've gone to my profile (or his) and smiled at the relationship status, and I like having it there too because I like showing him off to everyone!!

[MissButterfly]

My SO is my first boyfriend, and I was extremely excited when he asked me to be his girlfriend. I almost immediately asked if I could put it on facebook. He was like 'yeah, if you want...', so I doubted whether or not he really was okay with it. Later he told me that he was really happy that I wanted to make it facebook official, that I was proud enough to show the world.

[HollzHeartsChris]

I don't see anything wrong in putting up your relationship status as public on Facebook. Reason I don't think it's a bad idea is that at least then you can stop other guys/girls from hassling you

[xbriellex]

When my SO got together, we didn't even add each other on FB until we got to meet in real. And then he put his status as "Engaged" publicly but I didn't want to put it on my FB because my mom is my friend on FB and I didn't want her to see.

I told my SO about it and he's totally cool with that.

[rcknmommy]

I have my status as "In a relationship" but his is still "single". I actually asked him about it last night and he said that "a facebook status doesn't really mean anything, whats important are the feelings that exist between two people" I understand it and as much as I would love to announce it to the world that he's with ME of all people, I understand and am cool with it. The important people know and that's all that matters to me.

[squirrelz15]

We haven't made it public, on facebook. we both just took off our relationship "status" all together. So it doesn't say we're single, it just doesn't say we're in a relationship either. Idk why we did it that way. I guess people are just to nosey, and it's our relationship not theirs, and I'm ok with that. If we change lit later I'm fine with that too

[milaya]

I've had my status public through all stages on facebook. From "in a relationship" to "Married" and I haven't had any problems and don't see the big deal either.
At first I didn't link to my SO because we were keeping our relationship a secret from his parents, then he told them and we linked.
I also waited a bit when it came to turning "engaged" to "married", because I hadn't told my father and his side of the family, yet.

[Kiara]

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!

I also met a guy who changed his birthday date on Facebook, so all the "not-so-friends" friends wrote happy birthday on his wall because they just read the calendar! ahahah I'm willing to do that!!!

[efish1042]

Mine says "In a relationship".
After a while, someone pointed out to him that his still said "Single" and he changed it. Now it is nothing.
He just doesn't feel like it's everyone's business how we are doing. The people that should know, will know.
It bothered me at first, but I don't really care anymore. I kind of agree that its not everyone's business, but I like having mine the way it is because it puts off some people that would try to hit on me otherwise. Not all, but some.

[dutchgirl]

My bf leaves it empty because he don't want his friends to know he has a gf
Even his best friend did't know he had a gf for more than a year! He found out on fb when i had put a photo of us together and tagged him!
He said that when his parents knew i am his gf, he wouldn't hide me anymore.
Now his parents know and he still dont want anyone else to know
He's a teacher on a girls school with a lot of female teachers and nobody there knows he's not single.
First he didn't want to add male teachers as a fb friend. He didn't want them to see the photo.... :s

[Alemap]

My bf leaves it empty because he don't want his friends to know he has a gf
Even his best friend did't know he had a gf for more than a year! He found out on fb when i had put a photo of us together and tagged him!
He said that when his parents knew i am his gf, he wouldn't hide me anymore.
Now his parents know and he still dont want anyone else to know
He's a teacher on a girls school with a lot of female teachers and nobody there knows he's not single.
First he didn't want to add male teachers as a fb friend. He didn't want them to see the photo.... :s

Oh, sweetie.
Seriously?
There are so many red flags here that he should be in a ring, wearing capris and a bolero. You deserve better than this guy.