" Or, on the other side-- two deceptive pals get engaged, change their respective statuses, and then BOOM! Every person they know on Facebook wants a welcome to the wedding event.
Both of these circumstances (and lots of between) beg the concern: simply how do you change your relationship status on Facebook while keeping your news feed fans in the dark?
Changing Relationship Status On Facebook
I get that this is an extremely twenty-first century only-for-people-who-are-online-a-lot issue, and maybe a silly one at that. Why, when you're considering a modification to your long-lasting relationship, would your mind roam to your Facebook relationship status? I cannot tell you, I simply know that for numerous individuals it does, and the creepy-crawly, upside-down-stomach feeling that accompanies those ideas isn't really the best thing ever.
Last year my buddy ended a relationship, and I observed that she successfully kept the ending of this relationship from ending up being Facebook's news-- a couple of "buddies" didn't even understand her previous relationship had been over for nearly a year when she started dating her now-boyfriend.
So she's clearly a bit of a digital genius, and I just recently had her take a seat and show me how to make this take place:
- Go to your profile.
- Click "Edit Profile".
- Select "Buddies and Family" from the menu left wing.
- Click the arrow beside "Relationship Status".
- Change this to "Only me".
ow your relationship status will be visible ONLY to you-- not even your (perhaps) partner can see it. It merely vanishes! It's a pretty easy fix (assuming Facebook does not alter the way you do it in a week), and painless at that. Win-win.