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I have no intentions on adding any women to my friends list that I am dating so I see nothing wrong with it. Why announce to the world you are in a relationship? For who? For what?
Personally, I have never put my relationship status on Facebook, for the same reason I don't put list my employer, or use a photo of myself for my profile picture, or announce when I'm out of town, or allow others to tag my location when I'm out. It's all a matter of basic privacy. If I want someone to know my relationship status, I'll tell them-- it's not something I feel the need to announce to the world.
Edit: It's likely that the OP's boyfriend, now that he's in college, is reconsidering the level of privacy he wants to have online. Colleges stress to students to be very careful about posting personal details online, and rightfully so. The feature of being able to restrict which of your "friends" can see which info., by the way, is one of the few good things Facebook has done to help promote user privacy. He is wise to be experimenting with that, and realizing that he doesn't need to allow everyone to see everything.
Last edited by nearnorth; 11-22-2014 at 07:59 PM..
Personally, I have never put my relationship status on Facebook, for the same reason I don't put list my employer, or use a photo of myself for my profile picture, or announce when I'm out of town, or allow others to tag my location when I'm out. It's all a matter of basic privacy. If I want someone to know my relationship status, I'll tell them-- it's not something I feel the need to announce to the world.
Exactly, my facebook is nothing but a sports account to talk NFL and NBA
Personally, my relationships are my personal business and I wouldn't feel the need to have my relationship details on social media. I also feel if it's on again off again it is so much stress and distress to put out there for public consumption. If it's a solid relationship, you speak to each other all the time anyway is it necessary to broadcast or have that secondary public communication?
Yes! This times 100.
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Originally Posted by dave nz
Half the world is in famine. And meanwhile a poor girl is devastated her BF didn't add her as a friend on facebook.
Is it normal for my boyfriend to not want to be friends on Facebook?
He is in college, surrounded by a variety of single women - he probably wants to keep his options open and does not want to reveal that he is already in a relationship. Or, maybe your relationship with him is not the relationship you think it is. Anyway, ask him because only he knows why he won't be friends with you on FB.
[not.being.friends.on.Facebook is the least of your problems here]
One thing I've noticed about people's FB pages: women almost always have photos of themselves with their SO. Men very rarely do. I wonder what that's about.
In my experience women seem to use social media more than men, and seem to be FAR more likely to post pictures of any kind. (I personally don't post pics of myself online at all, other than occasionally for professional purposes.) Of the men who DO post pics, they seem to be just as likely as women to use pics with their SO. Many times those are the only recent pics guys even have, because their SO's take the initiative to have them taken.
I see men put *in a relationship* or *divorced* or *recently separated* and of course *married*.Just get rid of the cheater, you can't have two of you together.
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