<![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status - Gawker Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status - Gawker Comments]]> http://gawker.com Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:31:51 EDT Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:31:51 EDT http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4950466 @Walden3: Yes. Possible latent lesbian tendencies are most amusing diversions...

georgewroth

]]> 7:373443:c4950466 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:31:51 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4943672 @FitnessMadeSimple: RIP, Mitch.

GeorgeFayne

]]> 7:373443:c4943672 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:06:10 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4940567 My best friend and I were very bored one day, and tired of getting the relationship updates, so we made up our own fake boyfriends on facebook. We gave them interesting profiles with cute pictures reflective of our perfect guy. We tagged them in dark and ambiguous pictures, and waited for the add-friends to roll in. Sure enough, the newsfeed did it's job well. Some people thought it was stupid, but we thought it was funny... and a little bit exhilarating. It was especially great when our friends would call to ask about the new mystery relationship. One of my closest girlfriends was actually really upset that I had never told her anything about him before! When I "broke it off", I got a lot of "whatever happened to that hot guy?!" I would just smile and say "It was so surreal. In the end, he just turned out to be very fake." If anybody wants to be friends with my fake ex, his name is Gaven Mackensie. We're still friends, so I'll make sure he adds you. ;-)

TheComeback

]]> 7:373443:c4940567 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:28:45 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4940478 This is making me rethink making my current lover facebook-official.

So much better to proclaim onesself "in an open relationship" with a close friend, and have everyone wonder if you're actually expressing latent lesbian tendencies.

Walden3

]]> 7:373443:c4940478 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:52:23 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4931806 I'm confused as to what to do about the pictures. I have a lot of pictures of me and my significant other... on Valentine's Day, on our Anniversary, even just out with friends, we're holding hands and kissing.

If we break up, do I delete all those photo? What will a new potential mate think?

TropicalParadise

]]> 7:373443:c4931806 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:12:06 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4931659 Back in the days of friendster, I started dating this girl and she was a bit more serious about the relationship than I was, so she ultimately confronted me about it. I changed my status to "open marriage" and so did she. Fast forward to now where we've been broken up for a year and I'm still hung up on her. Wait, I had a point here - oh yeah, I shouldn't have slept with that other girl.
Fiddlesticks.


riskybusiness

]]> 7:373443:c4931659 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:42:47 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4930935 @Trixie from Toronto: Word. Nice job, Rebecca. Charmingly written.

cassandra

]]> 7:373443:c4930935 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:06:17 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4928048 This too is brilliant. With LolCait's comment and this post, I feel like the old Gawker is back!

Trixie from Toronto

]]> 7:373443:c4928048 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:12:00 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4924573 The worst part is that once you change your status to single, all of the ads that show up on your page are a desperate attempt to get your laid again, all the while reminding you that you've just been totally fucked over by your ex.

"Tired of dating, just wanna fuck? Click here!"

"Need to find a single man? You've come to the right place!"

"Lonely, pathetic, solitary? We know! We're watching you!"

malingering

]]> 7:373443:c4924573 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:17:18 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4923822 so-and-so is single, broken heart," the another's proclaims "so-and-so is single, heart." Mixed, messages, Zuckerberg. That's when things get extra complicated.

fingerfingerfinger

]]> 7:373443:c4923822 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:46:43 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4923785 Facebook does add perspective, however. While one person's minifeed will say "

fingerfingerfinger

]]> 7:373443:c4923785 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:45:21 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4923350 @hammerimissu & creamsissle : true. but, I get the exes (and pseudo-exes) who refuse to believe my "status" on Facebook and Myspace. or, at least, they pretend to need it explained to them. that, and all of the pictures of my fiance on my facebook/myspace.

Hello? You're not that stupid (otherwise we'd never have fucked in the first place); and I'm not giving it up tonight, no matter how confused you act, how trashed we get together, nor how good I remember the oral to be.

I'm also a fan of the hopeful IM, when they quit said networking sites. I like to mindfuck, so much that I'm getting my master's in it. So, yeah: then we meet up at rock shows, and get smashed together, again.

hottherapisttypegrrrl

]]> 7:373443:c4923350 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:28:53 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4923081 UGH I got the broken heart by my name yesterday! No one has inquired if I'm okay or contacted me in any sympathetic way.

@redscorpse: yeah.

caustin

]]> 7:373443:c4923081 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:18:32 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4921412 my last girlfriend totally yelled at me about my single status on facebook. so i changed it. i shouldn't have been surprised that she used her status to break up with me. fuck you, facebook.

redscorpse

]]> 7:373443:c4921412 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:18:42 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4919710 @creamsissle: Living loud is the best revenge.

Mike_Jahn

]]> 7:373443:c4919710 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:23:13 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4919333 Part of the joy of starting a new relationship is advertising that fact to one's exes who stalk via Facebook, etc.

creamsissle

]]> 7:373443:c4919333 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:09:17 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4918259 I love how after I break up on facebook all my scummy ex-bfs suddenly message me, "hi! how are you sweeite??".

hammerimissu

]]> 7:373443:c4918259 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:27:18 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4918112 How can I make mine so I'm both in a relationship and looking for whatever I can get?

hamburgerhotdog

]]> 7:373443:c4918112 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:21:58 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917972 @Mike_Jahn: Also: Pot whore.

TallulahSkankhead

]]> 7:373443:c4917972 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:17:16 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917823 Relationship Status: I don't have a girlfriend...I just know a girl who would be really pissed if she heard me say that.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> 7:373443:c4917823 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:11:58 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917691 Come to think of it, a pretty good Facebook relationship status designator would be "I only take cash."

Mike_Jahn

]]> 7:373443:c4917691 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:07:18 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917436 Nothing hurts more then watching the other person change your relationship status when you don't know your breaking up!!!

VTFootballGrad

]]> 7:373443:c4917436 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:57:51 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917379 I wonder how porn star Erik Rhodes, their threesome partner, is handling the breakup. Is he Team Marc or Team Jason?

tribalpottery

]]> 7:373443:c4917379 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:56:00 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917356 Nothing validates one's desirability like a little pink heart. Lust for me, O World.

katastic

]]> 7:373443:c4917356 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:55:22 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917353 I do believe they are well beyond caring about being publicly embarrassed.

Colonel Mustard

]]> 7:373443:c4917353 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:55:14 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917270 I didn't facebook-break-up with my last girlfriend until several weeks after we really broke up. I didn't want to face the public humiliation.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> 7:373443:c4917270 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:52:49 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917262 Oh, I love the relationship status "thingy" on facebook! I get to see half of the people that got married too early go from "married" to "its complicated" to "single". Schadenfreude, holla!

JinxyMcDeath

]]> 7:373443:c4917262 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:52:34 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917245 @mitchel_stevens: It would work for me! Assuming he doesn't have a doll collection.

BettyCrocker

]]> 7:373443:c4917245 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:52:06 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917186 @BettyCrocker:
this seems like the last line that works in every situation and conversation.

mitchel_stevens

]]> 7:373443:c4917186 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:50:01 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917168 CodePink is single.
CodePink is eternally single.
CodePink is dwelling in singledom.
CodePink is the playa of the year (ie, single).
CodePink is a singularity (black hole of singledom).





CodePink

]]> 7:373443:c4917168 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:49:32 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917120 @Mike_Jahn: Nor do they offer FUBAR, Dunzo, Ova, Sex Only, or Lesbian Bed Death. Damn Facebook!

BettyCrocker

]]> 7:373443:c4917120 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:48:10 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4917056 At least they offer the "it's complicated" option for depicting your relationship status. I use that one. Of course, i would prefer to use WTF but they don't offer it.

Mike_Jahn

]]> 7:373443:c4917056 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:45:51 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4916999 Last line should read: "And then you hit rock bottom (literally) and have hatesex with Vin Diesel.

BettyCrocker

]]> 7:373443:c4916999 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:43:50 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4916824 Well who the hell is MJ engaged to now? I MUST KNOW.

RocketRockit

]]> 7:373443:c4916824 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:37:22 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4916758 I'm sure they will get back together again.

Cheap Shot

]]> 7:373443:c4916758 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:35:19 EDT <![CDATA[The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status]]> http://gawker.com/373443/the-hardest-part-of-breaking-up-is-changing-your-facebook-status#c4916740 Someone has been reading my diary...er, blog.

MyMuffinTop

]]> 7:373443:c4916740 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:34:24 EDT