Always changing relationship status in Facebook ;-)

@kokomo (1867)
Philippines
March 10, 2013 10:34pm CST
Recently, I had notice one of my friends in Facebook when every time she and her boyfriend had a fight or misunderstanding, she use to change her relationship status in Facebook as "single" and when they are already in good terms she returns their usual "in a relationship status". I felt annoyed sometimes and for me, it is a childish act. I told it to her when we met and she told me, she too was annoyed because, she was not doing all the changes, according to her sometimes it was her boyfriend who can access her account actually was the one who is changing her status. So funny. What is your views on this?
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15 responses
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
16 Mar 13
i also observe that when i open my Facebook account and see the posts of my friend,some of them broadcast their relationship status if they are single or complicated,because i never change my status even i had a partner or even i don't have.
@kaka135 (14916)
• Malaysia
14 Mar 13
I suppose it's personal preference to make the change, though I think it's quite immature to do so. I do not have friends who change the status always, I believe that's because my friends are all quite "old", also I don't think they will like to update the status until they are very firm with the relationship. I have a friend put the relationship as "Complicated", and we found it quite weird. Why not just put "Single" instead? But she told me she wanted to show that she was actually in a relationship, but just had some problems uncertain.
• Hyderabad, India
11 Mar 13
A childish answer to defend a childish act. Brilliant. Isn't it a little too immature on her part to be saying something like that. On the other hand, I feel she could herself be doing this to garner attention of people in her friend list. Either way, not a smart thing to do.
• Indonesia
12 Mar 13
I have friend who give his girlfriend to access his facebook page because his girlfriend always jelous and think if my friend have someone other on his facebook page. It's very annoying because when my friend commect on my post/status I'm not really sure if it's my friend who write it or it's his girlfriend. Social media is only social media but I won't give anyone even my love one to access my account.
@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
11 Mar 13
I would be more concerned. More than the facebook status changes, I can't believe she actually let her boyfriend access to her Facebook account. What would happen if they actually break up for good, goodness knows if her boyfriend isn't going to do anything harsh on her Facebook. I really hope it will not come to that.
@babyeve (1048)
• Seychelles
12 Mar 13
It is very stupid. I think most of them force themselves to be in a relationship so that they can only change their facebook relationship status. Does is matter if you are single, married, divorced or whatever? Much more, these things are personal.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
THAT IS really ANNOYING! If that was my boyfriend changing my status all the time and making me look childish, insecure and fickle minded in the eyes of all my friends in FACEBOOK. if my Bf does this to me all the time, i would change my account's password and actually try to break up with him for good. Since he wants me tto be single and if he does not respect our privacy as a couple and had to declare to everyone whatever is happening between the twwo of us via status update, wow I could just slap his face!
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
11 Mar 13
I reckon people who do that are just doing it for the sake of getting attention from their Facebook friends. Obviously, when they change their relationship status, "concerned" Facebook friends will be poking their noses in and asking them what's the matter, are they alright and so on and so forth. It is a really immature thing to do since this friend of yours is taking the relationship lightly and for granted. I'm not sure if we can believe it when she says her boyfriend accesses her Facebook account and changes the relationship status. I thought Facebook was supposed to be private to the owner of the account, and if the boyfriend wants to change the relationship status he could well do it on his own Facebook account and not on his girlfriend's. If indeed the boyfriend has been doing that, well, I got one advice for her: Log out of your Facebook account each time you're done with a session!
@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
Yes sometimes it annoyed us to see them open changed their status on facebook. But that was their way of using it. I think those who do that way are playing with their fb and status and to add play their relationship with someone. One thing i noticed to some of them who are using fb are they make it as other online game. I am sad about this because one of my friend too do the same as you said. Everytime they break they changed status. Why they are happy to do such play.. ok friends lets not be like them.. :D have a nice day!
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
Oh, her boyfriend did the changes? I hope she will change her password so that her boyfriend can't access her account. They're really childish. Let's hope that eventually they will become more mature and no more changing of status.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
There are annoying statuses posted that really irritates me. And so instead of getting more annoyed, I just do other things. I do not react to such posts. I feel that not all people really needs to know your life story.
• Liechtenstein
11 Mar 13
I don't know what's the point of relationship status in the first place. Whether you are in a relationship or not why you must announce to everyone that you're in a relationship? Sometimes even a single person can randomly change their relationship status anytime. My view on this is silly and it's quite pointless. Why waste your time on that?
@nixon56 (15)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
You are an observant person kokomo. I do observed that thing too. There are two salient points in your discussion. First is the changing of facebook status and the other one is the shared account or shared password. I believe, changing of "facebook statuses" annoys friends especially those who does not know you or have been away a long time. Frequent changing of status reflects on the individual's personality negatively. For sure, it is not a good sign of a friendly attitude and/or circumstances in one's life especially on a social network like facebook - not a good way of gaining friends. On the other hand, sharing of account or password with your boyfriend or girl friend shows that you trust each other. But this is always not a plus; there are things even for a couple that should be kept private. For me, I do't really care, if someone else status is change many times a day. Or if their account or password is shared. There are a lot more significant matters in facebook than delving on a friends status or shared accounts. Changing statuses and sharing accounts/password is the owner's prerogative. Fact is, I don't really care at all.
@jiiiiin (586)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
I have a friend like this. It really annoys me whenever she do it, I think it is a pathetic thing to change everytime your relationship status.
• Valdosta, Georgia
11 Mar 13
No matter who it was that was changing the status updates it is an immature thing to do. Either your in a relationship or not, there is no reason to change it just because you have a fight. Everyone has arguments in their relationship, its normal! But there is no reason to change whether your single or together every time they argue!