Comments on: Modern Romance

By: Jonas Ã–berg

Jonas Ã–berg — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:33:45 +0000

For fun, you can always add as many strange relationships with people as you can think of. It always confuses someone!

By: Jeska

Jeska — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:54:56 +0000

ok that’s adorable… I just flipped the “in a relationship” bit, which has it’s own modern love fun :)

By: Alexis

Alexis — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:53:37 +0000

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’.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:21:15 +0000

So Cool. Can you add more than 1 boyfriend?

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:45:03 +0000

Awww. Thanks Jessica. He’s a real mensch, too. I’m a lucky girl.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:15:08 +0000

He’s so cute!

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:24:41 +0000

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.

By: kristi

kristi — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:41:50 +0000

My question is what Facebook sends you if the other person DOESN’T confirm your relationship–and is there a network for that?

By: sat

sat — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:36:18 +0000

Shouldn’t facebook be playing an audio clip of somebody saying “awww” when you click that add button?

By: tim

tim — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:19:35 +0000

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.