10 Responses to “Modern Romance”

• tim Says:
  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.
• sat Says:
  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?
• kristi Says:
  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?
• Milan Says:
  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.
• Jessica Says:
  September 5th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

  He’s so cute!
• Erica Says:
  September 5th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

  Awww. Thanks Jessica. He’s a real mensch, too. I’m a lucky girl.
• Guillaume Says:
  September 6th, 2007 at 11:21 am

  So Cool. Can you add more than 1 boyfriend?
• Alexis Says:
  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’.
• Jeska Says:
  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 :)
• Jonas Öberg Says:
  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!