The new Google+ gives users 10 relationship statuses to choose from. "Divorced" isn't one of them.
Have you gotten the all-mighty Google+ invitation yet? The latest in social networking, Google+ includes circles and "plus ones" ... and boy is it so fun. I think? It's confusing. I don't really get it. I signed up this weekend and still have very little clue how to use it, but hopefully someone will be able to teach this old dog a new trick or two. Anyway, I thought I'd start my foray into Google+ by setting up my profile. Seemed like an easy enough thing to do— answer some basic questions about myself, upload a photo, and viola!
But there was one part of this "easy" profile set up that got me a little confused. Under the "Relationship" part, there's a drop down from which you choose how you define your status.
But Google forgot something. Where's the "divorced" option?
Timmy made an ill-advised status change and could be in for a world of hurt.
Oh boy. Timmy Gordon has been getting really into Facebook, the electric friendship generator. Unfortunately, he's developed a case of insomnia and is trying to cure it with Doze-e-tonic. Unfortunately, the combination of bad advice from Donny Watershed, grand-pappy's cough syrup, 3D glasses and the joy of Facebook has Timmy making some really bad online decisions.
On Facebook, couples can describe themselves as "in a civil union" or "in a domestic partnership."
In what's being lauded as a victory for the LGBT community, Facebook has added civil unions and domestic partnerships as relationship statuses for users in the United States, Canada the United Kingdom, France and Australia. The feature, which went into effect last Thursday, allows you to choose either of those options (or "in a Civil Partnership," for those in the UK), in the drop-down menu of familiar statuses like "Married," "in a Relationship," and "it's Complicated."
Hold on there! Updating a Facebook relationship status is a matter of timing and communication.
If you're dating someone but don't mention it on your profile, people (including Loverboy) may start wondering just how serious you guys are. On the other hand, if you update your status to "in a relationship" too soon, your guy will think you're either psychotic or creepin' on the side. So, what's a woman who's interested in handling a potentially complicated situation with some courtesy and class to do?
You know what else is funny about people you haven’t seen in a while? I was just talking to Suzanne, a friend I hadn’t heard from in months, and she busted out the "we." As in, "We’re great. He’s off to London tomorrow, so I’m trying to plan my weekend." I was like, "We? He?" It’s a little annoying when acquaintances bust out the "we" without first mentioning or naming the boyfriend.
Break up, change your Facebook relationship status to single and watch the support pour in.
When Krissy Gasbarre broke up with her boyfriend she wanted to change her Facebook relationship status to single—but was afraid of her friends' reaction. Turned out she had nothing to worry about. When her friends saw that she was newly single they jumped in to support her. One woman's story about breaking up on Facebook.
When he changes his status to "single," dead ex-boyfriends, and new views on empty nest syndrome.
The morning quickie: the perfect way to start your day. Read on for three interesting love and sex tidbits. Are you waiting for him to change his Facebook relationship status to "single" so you can swoop in? You may be a relationship status vulture. Are you a terrible person if you're relieved when your ex dies? And empty nest syndrome may not be as bad as once thought.
"The Joy of Sex" on the Today show, "Star Trek" sex, and Facebook relationship status vs feminism.
The morning quickie: the perfect way to start your day. Read on for three interesting love and sex tidbits. "The Joy of Sex" on the Today show, news about the "Star Trek" sex scene, and Facebook relationship status vs feminism.
It's time that social media starts following the real life rules of common courtesy.
Facebook has existed as the Wild West for far too long. It's time that someone codify what is and is not OK to do with your fellow human beings on Mark Zuckerberg's creation (collaboration). Social media needs to follow rules in the same way that society needs to follow certain protocols of etiquette, otherwise it's going to be friggin' anarchy. Here are those rules.
...all brighteyed and bushytailed, I earnestly asked a boy who had verbalized (sober...in my bed....snuggling me) boyfriend/girlfriend relationship status, and what happened? Request ignored.
After a few days, I decided to find out if it had been lost in his mail or something. "You didn't approve my in-a-relationship request...?" I ventured. Visions of the guys I know without any definitive relationship status whatsoever online, who cheat on their out-of-town girlfriends because local girls are none the wiser, danced in my head. "I...just...don't like...being public about stuff," he mumbled. Harrumph. Okay, not really the I-like-you-and-I-want-everyone-to-know-it enthusiasm a girl needs.
