How important is it to change a Facebook relationship status?

If he’s like my husband he probably doesn’t even know how to change it. You should be asking him. You two should do what ever YOU’RE comfortable with. It’s best for your relationship if you ask him instead of us.

I don’t think anything on facebook is actually important. I’m on there a lot, but I don’t always update things, or fill out everything possible on my profile. Why would anyone care if you updated your relationship status? I would bet my husband doesn’t even have married on his and we have been married for 20 years.

It isn’t. Facebook is voluntary.

Unfortunately it’s not going to stop sicko looky loos from viewing your photographs and learning allllll about you.

It is important to some and not important to others. That’s all. FB means different things for different users so it’s not a one size fits all answer.

My boyfriend and I are pretty active on FB and thus have the relationship status. However, I have not done it in the past because past boyfriends haven’t used FB much and at the time I didn’t use it either.

If I didn’t have the status, the relationship would still be there and all of my friends would know about it. For me, it’s more about convenience in that I can add someone I met recently and they will know just from looking that I’m not single and not available. That’s important for me because at my age (early 20s) many people are looking.

As long as you both agree on whatever you will or will not do, it’s fine! :)

I’m sure it hasn’t occurred to him that he has a relationship status posted. If you do ask him to change it, consider having him remove the status, instead of changing it to “in a relationship”. Any relationship status change will usually bring out weird/stupid comments from people.

Depending on what one is using facebook for it can be important and unimportant. If people are there to make new friends and have a blast I reckon it does become important. If a person is using the site as a business generator definitively unimportant, unless this relates to business and you are building up a persona.

Perhaps ask him which he would prefer you to put with your profile?

If he never posts, he’s probably never going to change his status—even if he’s married. FB relationship status is no big deal unless you both use it alot.

If you’re in a relationship, both parties should change the status. A lot of people use it to keep multiple relationships going, so if it isn’t changed, I’d mention it while you’re checking yours or something, try to be casual.

Thanks for the input. Because this is a long distance relationship for now, I’m leaning towards mentioning it. I’m thinking about waiting until we are together… Which will be in a few weeks time.. Or I could just casually say “still single on Facebook?” ;) next time we talk. I’m not sure why this feels awkward, I just don’t want to seem juvenile about it or adolescent. I’m aware that some people feel differently about Facebook etc, but I’d rather there was no status than single! Ugh!

@Nuclear He could be waiting for that, too, if this is the first meet.

@KNOWITALL, this isn’t our first time meeting, but it will be the first time since having the conversation. I just do not want to put any unnecessary pressure on things….as it really feels like it is going well, and in conversation with him he is constantly using ‘girlfriend’ and ‘boyfriend’. Who knows, he’s probably oblivious…

@nuclear – You could change your status and he will get a notification of it – especially if you tag him as the person you are in a relationship with.

WHAT? You don’t change your relationship status in public without discussing doing so with the person you’re in the relationship with! Good lord.

I just think if he never bothered changing it for his last relationship, and doesn’t post much on FB, it’s not a big deal to him. My husband didn’t say we were married until a few years after the fact. And I think he only changed it because he accidentally stumbled on the setting.