Made it "official" on Facebook

[tuffyluvr]

I rarely log on to Facebook these days. Occasionally I will scan through the news feed on my iPhone while waiting in line or whatever, but I can't even tell you the last time I logged on from my laptop... Anyways, long story longer I felt compelled to write a scathing Yelp review of the dealership I bought my car from (South Coast Subaru in Costa Mesa, CA--don't go there, they're awful!!!) and in the interest of public service I linked it to my Facebook.

When I logged on I noticed that my 'status' was still, 'in a relationship', so I decided to update it to 'engaged'. And then I couldn't figure out how to hide my updated relationship status, oopsie! My phone has been blowing up all night with 'likes' and congratulatory comments... Meanwhile, I got engaged at the beginning of December! I feel like such an idiot, but at the same time I'm laughing my a$$ off! Of course my "real" friends have known for ages--all 15-20 of them. And now I'm getting a barrage of 'congrats!', 'like'! From the thousand former coworkers, classmates, aquaintences and friends of friends. Ah, the modern world... So funny!

Edited for spelling/idiotproofreading

 

[Mico]

ha! I think I kinda want it that way anyway, I use my facebook for random photos/thoughts but with personal details it's "press release only"

I didn't even put a picture of me and SO up until almost a year into dating, and he's never even made it to profile picture status. I figure if someone doesn't know me, they shouldn't be able to figure out my personal life unless I tell them, you know?

 

[audball]

That IS hilarious! Well now you can be "really" engaged since it's Facebook official an dall

 

[madelise]

It ain't official til it's on FB.





Let me share with you what my SO sent me a few years ago when we were planning to get engaged then. He *knew* I'd probably just pull out my phone and say, "hold on honey don't move, let me take a picture first for FB". Which was probably true then. I think *now*, I might still want a picture of him.. but I don't know if it's for FB or not. Maybe

Have those buddies on FB started calling and/or texting you congrats?

 

[peonia]

haha that's great! never too many waves of congratulations in my opinion i've thought about the whole status thing as well lately... i was always adamant on not having a relationship status on FB. when SO and i were together before our 2 year break, we posted photos of each other openly but never had a status. this time round, SO was quite keen on the idea and when i asked him why (i was trying to prove it wasn't necessary), he said he was proud to be with me and wanted everyone to know that. i thought that was sweet (though still not really believing in the whole concept - i had seen too many "no longer in a relationship" status changes to put me off it!), and since it wasn't going to bother me that much i agreed. i get what he meant now - even though i'm not the most active person on FB (he is even less active), i still like seeing his name on my page

we'll definitely update it when we get engaged, but i'm thinking it might be better to leave it for a couple of months to have a period of time when only our nearest and dearest will know (even though i'm sure lots of others will find out through word of mouth).

sorry for that long ramble!

 

[mandasand]

My friends got engaged last night...I knew he was planning on proposing on their anniversary (which was yesterday). It must have been seconds after he asked he posted it on Facebook. By this morning, the announcement had 80 comments already. So, it's true that it's not official until it's on FB! It's so super sweet though!

 

[maebelle]

I'm both excited and worried about all the attention on facebook, but that *is* what its for!

seconds after seems a bit quick to me though, I want to be able to enjoy it ourselves for a bit, then call family, then text close friends, then a couple of days later update facebook.

As for the OP: Even if you had posted right away, there would have been people who looked at your page randomly 3 months later, congratulated you, and started the tide of congratulations all over again, just be happy even people you barely remember are sending you good vibes

 

[audball]

I think it's true. Even if you had updated it right away, *someone* would have missed it and brought it back up to the top of your page after some amount of months.

Either way, I figure all the congrats aren't a bad thing at all! I'm sure they'd make me fell really happy that people wished us well!

 

[Silvia]

I saw a Facebook proposal the other month, he took a photo of the ring and tagged her and the caption was the question.

*gag* if my bf did that I'd be terribly disappointed.

 

[maebelle]

I saw a Facebook proposal the other month, he took a photo of the ring and tagged her and the caption was the question.

*gag* if my bf did that I'd be terribly disappointed.

It may not be all of our cups of tea, but I know a couple of people who do a lot of computer networking that would have loved that proposal if it was done right. Like, he posted it with her in the room with him, and then told her to "look at this interesting thing on facebook" so she could get the ring right then and not be the 400th person to see the proposal because he posted when she was at work or something. Everyone is different,for the right girl that would be the right proposal!

 

[Silvia]

I saw a Facebook proposal the other month, he took a photo of the ring and tagged her and the caption was the question.

*gag* if my bf did that I'd be terribly disappointed.

It may not be all of our cups of tea, but I know a couple of people who do a lot of computer networking that would have loved that proposal if it was done right. Like, he posted it with her in the room with him, and then told her to "look at this interesting thing on facebook" so she could get the ring right then and not be the 400th person to see the proposal because he posted when she was at work or something. Everyone is different,for the right girl that would be the right proposal!

Oh, absolutely! But not for me!

i don't know them personally, but an old workmate commented on it and it came up on my newsfeed. From the comments they weren't in the same house, but she was happy.

 

[pandabee]

I saw a Facebook proposal the other month, he took a photo of the ring and tagged her and the caption was the question.

*gag* if my bf did that I'd be terribly disappointed.

It may not be all of our cups of tea, but I know a couple of people who do a lot of computer networking that would have loved that proposal if it was done right. Like, he posted it with her in the room with him, and then told her to "look at this interesting thing on facebook" so she could get the ring right then and not be the 400th person to see the proposal because he posted when she was at work or something. Everyone is different,for the right girl that would be the right proposal!

aww I can see that being a cute way to do it, to incorporate technology into the proposal...but I agree, wouldn't be for me if it was done entirely on fb.

 

[audball]

That definitely wouldn't be my cup of tea, but I know people who probably would LOVE that. People vary for sure.