How to fall in love and breakup on Facebook properly?

Relationship ain’t easy. But online relationship could even be harder. Quite often I see friends of mine posting their relationship status to celebrate their love. This is unquestionably a good way to express affection. It’s sweet…but then things may not always go the way we want to… Anyhow, here’s a complete guide at the relationship management (lifecycle) on Facebook…


OK at the beginning you’re single and you found your match. You both got onto Facebook and start to know other new friends – friends of your affectionate match. You begin to connect that relationship… setting that profile of you’re in a relationship could be like walking into a church wedding. It’s special and all…

When it’s done, you’re crowned with a new status on Facebook. You guys are now official !!!!

“This is cool” you said. And like many, we thought so! The couple are as happy as can be, with their recent photos and everything else they could think of posted to Facebook just like fairy tale. However, not every relationship ends in marriage. Things happen and you guys broke up. Now what??????
Well the next daunting task is not to file a divorce fortunately, but it is necessary to refresh your Facebook profile so that you can tell the world that you’re now in the market again – I’m available!!! That’ll let your secret admirers to come out of the woods and hopefully you get to do this all over again. So here’s what you think you’ll do… you go into the profile and update yourself back to “Single“.

Oh boy, you’ve done it now. Be brave!!! Guess what you have done… you have now announced to the world that you’ve broken up. Well, how? Isn’t it just the profile we updated? Well no, you’ve also made the announcement through the Facebook mini-feed. Congratulations!!!

Now your friend, her friend and everyone else are going to find out: “What Happened?”. They’re going to write on your wall, your picture to tell you how sad they feel, or how much of a scum you had been. And by then your friend’s friend will also see it on their mini-feed and respond accordingly… wow… what have you done?
How to do it right?
1. Well firstly, the only way to do it is never to post your relationship status at the beginning (at least until you guys are married), that way you won’t have to change it. Or if you haven’t broken up yet, set the relationship status to blank now! It’s not too late.
2. But if you already have done it, the best way to do this without publicizing it too much, is to go to Profile Edit > Relationship and set it to blank first. This will trigger a mini-feed still with the fact that you’re “no longer listed as in a relationship“, but this is the next best thing than telling the world you’re back to ‘Single’.

3. Talk to your match and agree on a timeframe when to go public with the status change. I know I know, this sounds so much like signing the divorce paper of who gets what and when. But you know, this isn’t easy. And you’ll learn not to post relationship status on Facebook ever again…
Unfortunately, Facebook does not have a way for the mini-feed on relationship status to be turned off once you’ve set it (even though some other web article said it could…liar!). Again if you never touched it, you’re ok. If you haven’t seen it, pretend its never there.
Listen to me! When you’re in love, just don’t get too excited at updating your Facebook profile, unless of course you want the whole neighborhood, or the whole school, or the whole office to know about it.