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I am not the most technical person when it comes to Facebook settings, but what does it mean when someone removes their relationship status from the main page? My friend has been dating this guy since January 2009 and he just recently removed any reference to their relationship status from his main page. His profile is semi-public, though, so you can see some things and you used to be able to see his relationship status, but now it's got nothing. Her profile had "in a relationship with" for the past couple of months until earlier this morning when it changed to blank like his. However, on her info it says "in a relationship with" and just now it's back to saying "in a relationship with" on the main page.

What does this usually mean? I would think that rather than picking and choosing what information to keep private and public that you would just make your profile totally private, right? Wouldn't that make more sense than to say "Okay, I want this private, but not this"? I just know that if I really liked/loved a woman and we were in a relationship together that I would be proud to tell people that we're together. But if I wanted my profile private I would make it private all of the way so no one would be able to read anything.

Do you think that their conflicting relationship statuses indicate trouble in the relationship? Or that a break-up is imminent?
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I am not the most technical person when it comes to Facebook settings, but what does it mean when someone removes their relationship status from the main page? My friend has been dating this guy since January and he just recently removed any reference to their relationship status from his main page. His profile is semi-public, though, so you can see some things and you used to be able to see his relationship status, but now it's got nothing. Her profile had "in a relationship with" for the past couple of months until earlier this morning when it changed to blank like his. However, on her info it says "in a relationship with" and just now it's back to saying "in a relationship with" on the main page.

What does this usually mean? I would think that rather than picking and choosing what information to keep private and public that you would just make your profile totally private, right? Wouldn't that make more sense than to say "Okay, I want this private, but not this"? I just know that if I really liked/loved a woman and we were in a relationship together that I would be proud to tell people that we're together. But if I wanted my profile private I would make it private all of the way so no one would be able to read anything.

Do you think that their conflicting relationship statuses indicate trouble in the relationship? Or that a break-up is imminent?
Sounds like you eager to swoop in for the kill.

I see a lot of people removing private information all the time. I'd be more concerned if one switched to "single" while the other said "relationship with".
 
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To answer your question directly ...yes, you can show/hide certain things to/from "everyone", "your friends", "friends of friends", any individual or group of individuals.

There is a lot of personal information you can fill out on FB that, for privacy and security reasons, you don't show to just anyone ...addresses, phone numbers, etc - for some, this includes relationship status.

I have to ask you ...why is this your business? Are you waiting for her to be single so that you can ask her out? ...because, honestly, that's a little stalkerish ...
 
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For me its nobody's business if I am in a relationship or not. With facebook settings now changed to be more slective on what you show and what you dont many more people have removed that listing for various reasons.

I wouldnt read anything into this.

The other thing with the setting that has been found is if someone changes the setting from single to in a relationship or the opposite then a whole bunch of people find out and it can get really anoying.
 
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Sometimes I have put things on Facebook or even here, then later taken them off or hidden them from general viewing.

This has nothing to do with any change to me (updating any status or whatever), but has more to do with finding out and worrying about security of my information and what is available on line.

I would also probably change the content of my FB profile if I friended more professional contacts, since my friends list has been very limited so far to social connections.

I do pick and choose what is visible to friends (everything), and friends of friends (very little), as well as to the public (nothing but my name), and I can see modifying that as my perception of internet security and the privacy of my information changes.
 
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Mr79percent wrote :
Sounds like you eager to swoop in for the kill.

I see a lot of people removing private information all the time. I'd be more concerned if one switched to "single" while the other said "relationship with".
It just seems dumb to me. Why not just make the whole profile private where nobody outside of friends can see it? I know that if my girlfriend suddenly changed it to nothing where mine still had it that I'd be pretty peeved. It would come across to me as hiding that she's in a relationship with me. That's why I say it is dumb. If you don't want people reading your private stuff, then just make the whole profile private and be done with it. Am I wrong?
 
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beatlejuice72 wrote :
It just seems dumb to me. Why not just make the whole profile private where nobody outside of friends can see it? I know that if my girlfriend suddenly changed it to nothing where mine still had it that I'd be pretty peeved. It would come across to me as hiding that she's in a relationship with me. That's why I say it is dumb. If you don't want people reading your private stuff, then just make the whole profile private and be done with it. Am I wrong?
I don't think your logic is wrong. I think you are wrong to think that everyone is logical.
 
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I too am curious about why you're asking. Having said that...

I too have all of my info except my name private so that only friends can see anything. Even still, ami1uwant is correct in saying that all of the questions you get from friends can still be very annoying whenever you change the status. I went from showing nothing to saying that I am "in a relationship" and it seems like everyone I knew felt the need to comment on it. Which is odd since I had previously posted several pictures of my boyfriend, and several of my status updates referenced him.
 
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beatlejuice72 wrote :
I am not the most technical person when it comes to Facebook settings, but what does it mean when someone removes their relationship status from the main page?
It means you're paying way too much attention to Facebook.
 
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