You hear it everywhere. Newspapers claiming that employees are getting sacked for posting Facebook (FB) messages, statuses, photos and comments. We hear of people getting sack VIA FB and sometimes BECAUSE of FB. Online social networking sites have become a modern way of communication. It’s a time killing technique and damn entertaining at that.
It seems that humans have become more simple, and easily satisfied. Someone posting “I’m having dinner now” would evoke tons of comments. A whole good 30 secs of entertainment. What’s even better than that? “Jane Smith is in a relationship” or “John Smith is no longer in a relationship”. It seems that people, including myself, are very very very interested in the love lives of other people, therefore evoking even more comments than the status before.
But what does it mean when your significant other refuses to change their status?
This phenomenon has baffled many people. It could mean several things: (I’m using “he” but it could mean he/she, I mean since I’m such a sexist person)
He does not want to appear attached.
This person still wants to keep their current lives, socially. This person wants to be able to go out anywhere with the ability to pick up the opposite sex without the lecture “oh… don’t you have a gf?”. By appearing single online, the chances of adding the facebook pages of the other sex will increase significantly. This person seems to want to keep his/her options open. This person will have no photos of their bf/gf in any of their display pictures or photo albums, photo tagging of any sort is “untagged” especially if it depicts his situation as “taken”.
He/she may not be ready to appear attached.
This is different to the above. This person is willing to change the status of his relationship but isn’t sure if he is ready to publically announce the relationship. He could have yet to cut the ties with an old flame, and therefore announcing the relationship with you would effectively end communication with the old flame. He could have just broken up publically and still sore from the reaction of people around him.
He/she is private.
This person is very sceptical of posting out personal information online for others to see. He believes that details within a relationship stay within the relationship. This person doesn’t not feel that he needs to show the world who he is attached with, not to appear single but for privacy reasons. This person may not actually exist, who is he, where is from, what does he look like? I’m only joking, its not to that extreme but you get what I mean.
He/she doesn’t know how to change it.
This person is a bullshit artist. Should be shot.
For those that haven’t experienced this phenomenon, these lists may appear hilarious and unreal but I’ll tell you that these actually do apply to the majority of people. How easy is it to “select” the right relationship status? Unless they have no hands or brainal function, I can’t see how this could happen.
A gesture so small can complicate so much.
How did you fix it?
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