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Whose relationship is it anyway?

  • Emma Taplin
  • Jun 8, 2013
  • 2 min read

With the recent news that most of us would share events such as an engagement on social networking sites before we even tell our closest family, is this set to be the way for future generations to come? Will the world know our news before our nearest and dearest? Celebs are always announcing their engagements or pregnancies to thousands of followers just moments after finding out themselves. So why is there such a need for us to share every detail of something as private as a relationship, with the world?

When I first got together with my first serious (ish) boyfriend, the second question he asked me after “Do you wanna go out with me?” was “When can we put it on Facebook?” Being the naïve 16-year-old that I was at the time, of course, to me the answer was simple: the sooner the better. I’d found my one true love, my knight in shining armour so why wouldn’t I want to share it with everyone I knew?

But when did the three simple words “in a relationship” become such a huge part of our lives? Of course it could be all thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and the invention of Facebook but then, when I was younger and flying solo, it never bothered me that I had “single” plastered across the top of my profile in bold, blue font text. So why is it, that nowadays everyone in the world of social media seems to be proud of the fact that they are “in a relationship with Henry” but not so proud to be “single”, with the sighting of a “single” relationship becoming rarer and rarer, instead being traded in for a blank space. Then of course you have “it’s complicated” except it’s never seen as acceptable to put that no matter how complicated it is.

Of course, this blank space does save some of the awkwardness often caused by a break up. “… went from being in a relationship to single” this is usually followed by an expectedly sympathetic comment or for those less subtle or just plain nosey friends that you only hear from once a year who insist on sending the standard “what happened?” or “inbox me babe” comment. The latter of these can often lead to more complications than the break-up itself.

Should relationship statuses be applied with caution or used as a way to share the happiness of our private lives with others? As someone who has been burdened by the issues of the Facebook relationship status, I would like to think that the next time I choose to share my relationship with the world, it will be because I am happy to and not because of pressures from around me. Until then, Emma is…


 
 
 

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