I believe it’s like friend requests: if you send one that isn’t accepted, you simply get no reply. If you try asking again, it says that you already made a request.
Facebook is hazardous ground for this kind of thing. Did you hear the story of the couple who decided to take their relationship status off Facebook (making it private — what a concept!), prompting everyone in their social circle to believe they had broken their engagement?
I decided a few years ago that indicating who I was ‘friends’ with was fine because ‘friend’ is such an ambiguous term online, but that I never wanted to have to go through the experience of removing a romantic relationship from my profile. It was bad enough back in web 1.0 when I found myself having to do that on a webpage, and that was when I decided ‘no more of this’.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:19 am
That’s hilarious. The Web 2.0 version of First Grade romance, where someone has to check a box saying if they want to be your boyfriend/girlfriend.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Shouldn’t facebook be playing an audio clip of somebody saying “awww” when you click that add button?
September 5th, 2007 at 9:41 am
My question is what Facebook sends you if the other person DOESN’T confirm your relationship–and is there a network for that?
September 5th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Kristi,
I believe it’s like friend requests: if you send one that isn’t accepted, you simply get no reply. If you try asking again, it says that you already made a request.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
He’s so cute!
September 5th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Awww. Thanks Jessica. He’s a real mensch, too. I’m a lucky girl.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:21 am
So Cool. Can you add more than 1 boyfriend?
September 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Facebook is hazardous ground for this kind of thing. Did you hear the story of the couple who decided to take their relationship status off Facebook (making it private — what a concept!), prompting everyone in their social circle to believe they had broken their engagement?
I decided a few years ago that indicating who I was ‘friends’ with was fine because ‘friend’ is such an ambiguous term online, but that I never wanted to have to go through the experience of removing a romantic relationship from my profile. It was bad enough back in web 1.0 when I found myself having to do that on a webpage, and that was when I decided ‘no more of this’.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
ok that’s adorable… I just flipped the “in a relationship” bit, which has it’s own modern love fun :)
October 5th, 2007 at 3:33 am
For fun, you can always add as many strange relationships with people as you can think of. It always confuses someone!