Facebook Official!

[noodle]

Just a few days or 1-2 weeks after me and my SO started datin I asked him if I could make it FB official basically. I honestly dont know why, I mean it's just Facebook and all my close friends know I have a bf but I guess it's just this "hey world look Im taken!! and he is MINE" thing x)
I changed the realtionship status to "in a relationship" but he didnt due to his parents, plus all his friends (he has a bunch that arent that close) would ask him millions of questions and he is just scared of his parents findin out (since they dont want him to talk to me at all cause we havent met yet).
He removed the realtionship thingy completely tho, he doesnt have anythin there anymore, I prefer that over the "single" thing :/
We have agreed on leavin it like this and once we meet in person make it ''official'' offical basically lol

[squiddie]

I don't really have to worry about the flirting, because neither of us are the type to add random people we don't personally know. We *are* facebook official, but I've had relationships in the past where it hasn't been. (I personally don't find facebook to be worth the drama that so many put around it.)

I think you have to decide for yourself whether or not you find it important, and why. And if it is important to you, you need to discuss this with your SO.

[NaNi]

I really wanted to make our relationship status "Facebook official". It took my SO quite some time to feel comfortable with it though, because most of her friends didn't know that she was with a woman. So that was understandable. But I got really happy when she finally did decide to make it public! I just like seeing it there. Letting other people know that she's mine. That we're a couple.

[bluepotato1236]

My SO requested me to put the relationship status soon after we started dating. Before that i didnt put any relationship status. His reason is he wants the world to know, lol..and he dont want other guy to think i am single. which i think its sweet.. And the next day after we got engaged we changed the relationship status to engaged.. I love it..

[elina]

Tehe, well Sam's not on Facebook (aww), and never will be but on my status it says I'm in a relationship. Everyone can see it from my profile picture too but oh well Would be either that or no status at all. No idea when I changed it O_o When we get engaged, I will change it into "engaged" and so on

EDIT: Just checked and apparently I changed it on the second time we met Was about a month after the first meeting, although we'd been head over heels quite a while before that too. Didn't have a status until I set it as "in a relationship". Kinda surprised I didn't change it earlier

[CountryGirl]

I personally love being listed as in a relationship with my SO on Facebook. It's nice looking at it all the time and constantly smiling at the fact that you and your SO are in a relationship, especially one that's going so well. It's like a wee bit of reassurance, even if you don't need it. It's also nice in the sense that when people see that you're in a relationship with someone then they are more likely to ask you about that person and you can brag a little..hey, it's an excuse to talk about the person you care for even more. Now that's a bonus (: And I reckon it's also good to let people know you're in a relationship so that individuals wont try and make passes at you.

[OliveOyl]

My SO does not have a relationship status on his FB, but I do and it states that I am in a relationship. I don't care why he doesn't feel the need to claim me on FB, because well, he shows me a lot of FB love in other ways. I don't have his name linked to my relationship status because I don't feel the need to. My friends know who my SO is...and for the acquaintances...I don't think my relationships are their business

[Luisina]

I'd always been a bit weary about that relationship status..
Before my BF came along I hadn't been in a serious relationship for 6 years (waaaay before my debut on fb) so my status had always been set to standard "single"..
The thought of suddenly making every single person on my friends' list able to follow my love life seemed kinda scary..
1) First of all, because we started out quite casual and I didn't want to jinx it.. the border between "friends" and "lovers" was constantly pushed, so neither of us had any clear grasp on WHEN we had gone from one to the other.
2) also, the concept of facebook is posting notifications - share things that are happening in our lives.. which is great cause I have a lot of friends abroad!
But - if you change something in your profile, you can't really decide to keep it on the down low, away from the News Feed. So, IF we hadn't made it, we would've had our failed relationship pop up as this HUGE, public notification........ I mean, as if the break-up itself wouldn't be hurtful enough... then everybody would start commenting, asking questions etc etc.. gah, nightmare.

So when he brought it up one day, I agreed to link our profiles.. with mixed feelings, I'll admit. 'Cause on one hand: we were in LOVE, and of course I wanted to shout it from the roof tops!! But, on the other hand I just didn't wanna jinx it (....did I mention I'm a pessimist?)

Anyway, it felt good once his name popped up on my profile
But we quickly agreed on keeping our walls FREE of "i love you"-messages, hearts, icky poems and any other kind of fluffy, romantic stuff.. 'cause honestly, facebook, that's none of your business He's MINE. I don't wanna share!

[fnjames]

jessie is the best(=

[sam]

Facebook sucks

[squiddie]

But we quickly agreed on keeping our walls FREE of "i love you"-messages, hearts, icky poems and any other kind of fluffy, romantic stuff.. 'cause honestly, facebook, that's none of your business He's MINE. I don't wanna share!

We're that way too. And I'm okay with that. I get enough of the "I love you"s and cute stuff between texts and skype. No need to gross everyone out on facebook, haha.

[michy]

We're that way too. And I'm okay with that. I get enough of the "I love you"s and cute stuff between texts and skype. No need to gross everyone out on facebook, haha.

Same with us- most of the sappy stuff stays private (although I might let just one or two things slide through to the facebook wall every once in a awhile!). His mom and some family are joint Facebook friends of ours, and they don't need to be witnesses to our tender expressions, lol!

I like having our relationship displayed on Facebook... I'm so proud of what we have, and it's kinda like the modern-day equivalent of 'shouting it from the rooftops'... sure, no one really needs to know, and perhaps many on my friend list don't especially care, but it still feels good to do!!

When we first started talking we friended each other on FB, and at that time my relationship status still said "married" from my ex... even though it had been awhile I hadn't bothered changing it and I kinda liked that it made guys leave me alone.... eeek! So he assumed I was off-limits at first and he was just casually friendly and purely respectful... and then I realized I WANTED this guy to follow through on his feelings, so I had a lot of explaining/encouraging to do!!!!!!!!!!!! So maybe those relationship statuses aren't always a good thing, LOL!

[Karringtyn]

Our accounts are joined..and we are the lovey dovey type on each others profile...that is just me...especially in this relationship...never have I felt this way...and it just reflects...

[agentholli]

Our accounts are joined..and we are the lovey dovey type on each others profile...that is just me...especially in this relationship...never have I felt this way...and it just reflects...

I agree i LOVE the lovey dovey stuff..i want my love to FINALLY make everyone sick and jealous!

[Andy]

I think that if you're not ashamed of your partner and or your relationship that it is natural to link facebook accounts if you both have them. I think it'd be a little weird if my SO was opposed to the idea.

There's not a need to do it, or anything... but for me it's more like.. "Why not?"

This is my take on it too, why not? Unless you have a very good reason like Moon of course

But we quickly agreed on keeping our walls FREE of "i love you"-messages, hearts, icky poems and any other kind of fluffy, romantic stuff.. 'cause honestly, facebook, that's none of your business He's MINE. I don't wanna share!

Yeah I'm with this, I'd rather keep most of the soppy stuff private too