Hello fellow COMM 100 classmates, I have three words for you today: Facebook relationship statuses.
In my opinion, the relationship status feature on Facebook is over used and makes things way more complicated than they should ever be in real life. One example of this is the status "It's Complicated." Every friend on your Facebook doesn't need to know if you have a complicated relationship with someone. Having that on your profile gives off a bad connotation to people who read it, as if teenagers in high school don't have to deal with the fishbowl effect enough. My biggest issue is that people these days do not regard relationships as highly unless they are "Facebook official." Once upon a time, the only people who needed to know if a relationship was real were the two people involved in it. Sure, they would tell their close friends and family if they wished, but they didn't need a happy pink heart declaring their commitment for each other on a public website to validate their love. Now, I am not saying couples don't have the right to post their relationships on their profiles. If you want to tell your Facebook friends, go for it. I am just pointing out that when something that personal is out in the open like that it makes it okay for other people to get involved. Everyone comments on the changed status when you get together, and then again if or when you break up. The most crushing thing that I have noticed is that often a couple will break up, and one of the two (usually the person who initiated the breakup) will rush to their computer to take down the relationship status. I don't know about you, but the last thing I want to worry about when I am freshly dumped is everyone asking if I'm okay... on my Facebook profile where everyone can see.
"That's all I got to say about that."
