" Or, on the other side-- two deceptive buddies get engaged, change their respective statuses, and after that BOOM! Each individual they know on Facebook wants a welcome to the wedding.
Both of these circumstances (and numerous in between) beg the concern: simply how do you change your relationship status on Facebook while keeping your news feed fans in the dark?
Changing Relationship Status On Facebook
I get that this is a very twenty-first century only-for-people-who-are-online-a-lot problem, and perhaps a ridiculous one at that. Why, when you're thinking of a change to your long-lasting relationship, would your mind wander to your Facebook relationship status? I cannot tell you, I simply understand that for many individuals it does, and the creepy-crawly, upside-down-stomach sensation that accompanies those thoughts isn't the very best thing ever.
In 2016 my buddy ended a relationship, and I observed that she effectively kept the ending of this relationship from becoming Facebook's news-- a couple of "good friends" didn't even understand her previous relationship had been over for nearly a year when she started dating her now-boyfriend.
So she's obviously a bit of a digital genius, and I just recently had her sit down and show me how to make this happen:
- Go to your profile.
- Click "Edit Profile".
- Select "Friends and Household" from the menu left wing.
- Click the arrow next to "Relationship Status".
- Change this to "Only me".
ow your relationship status will show up ONLY to you-- not even your (possibly) partner can see it. It simply vanishes! It's a quite simple repair (assuming Facebook doesn't change the way you do it in a week), and painless at that. Win-win.