Last year, more Facebook users changed their status to single than in a relationship — 24 percent versus 31 percent.
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What are recently divorced, separated, even broken up folks doing on Facebook?

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Instead of indicating that they are in relationships, teenagers find it fashionable to call themselves married on Facebook.
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YourTango has been sending out numerous press releases declaring Valentine’s Day an occasion for people to remove all signs of exes on Facebook. We’ve resisted these communiques, albeit after some debate amongst ourselves on whether they held any novelty. Now the website and corresponding page on the social network has come out with an entertaining video about the “”Break Up With Your Ex” campaign that’s cute enough for us to link at the very bottom of this post.
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While public displays of affection aren’t exactly a new thing, an increasing trend is the use of status updates to perform such acts.
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In the process of getting un-hitched from your spouse? You might not want to flaunt your extramarital exploits on Facebook, since anything posted to your social network may be used against you in divorce court.
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Dating services and other marketers of wares that appeal to the newly single, take note: Facebook relationship statuses most frequently go from “in a relationship” to “single” right before spring break.
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This morning I stumbled upon a little clip that shows how some peoples’ chat messages really happen. While chat has become a tool for flirting and romance in general, sometimes things just don’t work out the way they should. Check out the entertaining Facebook chat clip below.
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Playing Mafia Wars on Facebook might not seem like the most productive use of time but for two Florida residents it had the best outcome ever. John Sweeney and Joanne Doane‘s passion for the game led to their very own happy ever after – and a free honeymoon courtesy of Zynga.
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You can tinker about with privacy settings as much as you like, but the entire point of social networking sites such as Facebook is to encourage us to share our lives with one another. This is changing the way we live and run our relationships in fundamental ways.
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