Yeah, same here about the mixed feelings. My friends and I always used to say it's not official till it's posted on facebook. So that about sums it up.
I feel too much drama comes out of listing your Facebook relationship status or placing too much emphasis on it. It's already hard enough going through a break up, but when you have to break up online EVERYONE starts getting into your business. Best advice don't list your relationship status and alter your "Looking For" to networking, dating, relationship, etc. to reflect your relationship status.
I didn't mind when I broke up with someone that everyone was in my business. I got dates out of it, so I wasn't complaining :)
I love that my facebook shows I am in our relationship and has a link to my man. It even has our anniversary. Out of the five years that I've had facebook, I've only posted 3 relationships on it. For the other relationships that I had, they weren't important to mention. It was just casual.
I know couples, they change their status from 'in a relationship' to 'single to 'in a relationship' whenever they have a fight. It is extremely annoying. They should just stay broken up.
And not only does she change it to single, but she removes him as a friend... and then days later it shows up in my newsfeed "so and so is now friends with so and so" and she's back to "in a relationship" with him. When she was talking about moving cross country (AGAIN) with this guy, I asked if it was really a smart idea considering in the past 30 days she had unfriended him 5 times (I'm not even kidding - I went back through her wall and counted just to get the facts straight, as I knew it had been a lot!). I only unfriend people I don't really "talk" to or interact with on there or if they really upset me personally and I have no intention of ever being involved with the person again.
I'm a fan. Linking to my husband deters (some) men from hitting on me now. When my hubby and I first started dating, I didn't feel like our status as boyfriend/girlfriend was official until it was "facebook official" LOL