As funny as this sounded to me at the time, I honestly thought to myself, I don't know if it is. Just wondering how something can be official, but not Facebook official. Where facebook is the final frontier concerning relationship confidence, and openess to friends. Many people would say "Well I know I have a girlfriend, I don't know why it's important for all the people on facebook to know". But it's still a tricky subject. When the question comes up (and it will) as to why it's not official on facebook, if you use this answer it just looks like you want to hide her away or am ashamed of her. Whether you are or not, noone will believe you.
It's like you have to go through a second awkward step into defining the relationships. Whether you do or you don't, noone wants to be the first person to admit that yeah I want you to be my girlfriend/boyfriend. Even after you've made it official in this way, you have to go through the exact same embarrasing process of being the first person to request it on facebook. According to facebook I don't have a girlfriend, but according to my parents I also don't. So knowing this, maybe facebook is that brave talk you have to have with the people that already make up your life, concerning the person that will from now on be as big, if not bigger part of it.
My parents are married. But Dad doesn't have facebook. I'm worried that this makes them unofficial and coincidentally makes me a bastard child. As facebook grows not only in popularity, but also climbs up the heirarchy of importance in everyones lives, we could be seeing the disintegration of religious procedures within marriage. A world where you can tie the knot at the click of a button and it would not just be official, but "Facebook official", a term seemingly held in higher esteem within pop culture.
Fuck, No.
would you say Facebook is just another step in the relationship? somewhere between sex and meeting the parents..
ReplyDeletefunny enough, i believe your dad just got facebook, perhaps as a result of this blog? or maybe your parents are finally ready to take that next step, the facebook step. making everything facebook official
this is all so true Jesse. Its added a whole new dimension to the relationship game. And it puts it out there, not only to say 'hey im with this person' but when you break up, who is the person to cancel the relationship first? and then you have your whole friends list able to see that you've broken up with this person. Its crazy. Like i saw 'the social network' the other day and theres a scene where one of the co-creators girlfriends loses it at him because his relationship status says he's single, and he says, well thats what it was when i created my account. funny little parody. anyway im getting completely off track. love the post. keep it up x
ReplyDeleteI think the most hilarious thing about this blog is that exactly two days after I wrote it. Dad got facebook and my parents are now "facbook officially" married...
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