reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status in your facebook profile

December 4th, 2008 · 99 comments

the icing on top here, says our submitter, is the second comment — the one from billy. why? because, well, that’s the guy slade just broke up with. (adds our submitter: “awkward pretty much sums it up.”)

reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status in your facebook profile

related: please pick up your dirty laundry asap

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FILED UNDER: breakup · ex drama · facebook · oh no you didn't



99 responses so far ↓

  • #1   Heroin

    I’m consistently amazed at the willingness of others to lay it all out on Facebook.

    Dec 4, 2008 at 11:24 pm   rating: +25  

    • #1.1   Cookieput

      I agree. My profile is a collection of lies and obfuscations.

      I claim to be a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and my political party is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

      When former students try to friend me, I send them a polite message that Ms. Cookieput’s facebook profile is for mature audiences only.

      Dec 4, 2008 at 11:29 pm   rating: +13  

       
    • #1.2   claw71

      My facebook account was rejected by the administrator. Apparently they don’t have enough bandwidth to support my big ugly mug on their servers. They told me to check back in a few months to see if their sister site, assbook, is up and running.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 9:55 am   rating: +16  

       
    • #1.3   sxbaughsx3

      I am currently listed as a Satanist, I believe it gives my profile the edge it needs to survive in the hard-knock facebook world.

      Obviously, Slade was looking for support from people, and Billy decided that he would be there, which is….
      awkward!

      Thank the lord for awkward exes, life wouldn’t have as many stories without them.
      ACTUALLY, thank Satan, he’s not given enough credit these days.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 11:06 am   rating: +2  

       
    • #1.4   billy

      i disagree.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 3:35 pm   rating: +19  

       
    • #1.5   mere

      awkward.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 4:28 pm   rating: +15  

       
    • #1.6   inkwell

      sorry kiddo.

      Dec 6, 2008 at 10:48 am   rating: +8  

       
     
  • #2   Canthz_B

    Billy’s just lonely right now. Pets help. I’ll call Big Gay Al.

    Dec 4, 2008 at 11:46 pm   rating: +5  

     
  • #3   Quite Contrary

    Awkward? You think?

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:12 am   rating: +1  

     
  • #4   fantasy

    Facebook Friday again, the last time we did this I went and checked it out for myself.

    I know everyone told me not to. But I had to do it anyway, now everyone in the family is mad at me!

    Once you get in there you just can’t delete your account! I have been contacted by people I don’t even know!

    Shhheeesh, I have never been so sorry, once you put it up there honey there is no way of taking it back.

    I was even contacted by my husbands cousin, he just lives up the road a ways,on facebook it says he makes $250,000 a year. But we all know he is on disability ’cause he has the drinkin’ problem.

    In my book I wouldn’t even show my face in there if I were him.

    I mean really, his Father ran away with my Mother and hell I don’t even know if he is my cousin or my brother!

    But yeah, he has 12,592 friends, so hell, I guess he’s cool with it.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:15 am   rating: +24  

    • #4.1   Canthz_B

      If he’s getting $25o,000 a year then drinkin’ is much less of a problem then I’ve been led to believe! Cheers! :lol:

      Dec 5, 2008 at 12:45 am   rating: +8  

       
    • #4.2   fantasy

      ppssst! cb they lie on facebook.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 7:34 am   rating: +7  

       
    • #4.3   se

      Fantasy, if I’m reading this right, you might be married to your brother? cool..

      Dec 5, 2008 at 8:44 am   rating: +4  

       
     
  • #5   Crash

    8O Holy shit…. :lol:

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:19 am   rating: +1  

     
  • #6   aaa

    The guy’s name is Slade? Sounds like Billy dodged a bullet, there.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:32 am   rating: +18  

    • #6.1   RandyinReno

      Agree, aaa. Slade is always a villain.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 9:21 am   rating: +4  

       
    • #6.2   Canthz_B

      Except maybe John Slade in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka. :-)

      Dec 5, 2008 at 12:50 pm   rating: +4  

       
    • #6.3   Futon

      Or his Kentucky Fried predecessor “Big Jim Slade”?

      Dec 5, 2008 at 12:58 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #6.4   nasoccermom

      if you want to get with slade you have to bite the bullet, not dodge it

      Dec 5, 2008 at 4:24 pm   rating: +2  

       
    • #6.5   ohREALLYfool

      LMFAO, I actually know this guy. Slade is his last name, which he lists as his “only” name on fb. He likes to think he’s as cool as Madonna. Actually, he’s gay, so it would be Cher.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 8:35 pm   rating: +4  

       
    • #6.6   Jennifer

      Some folks calls it a Bling Slade but I calls it a low-down, no-good MF mmm-hhhhmmm. -Billy (Bob)

      Dec 6, 2008 at 4:46 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #6.7   tinkerbell2

      “Actually, he’s gay, so it would be Cher.”

      Right, because gay guys *hate* Madonna..

      Dec 8, 2008 at 8:27 am   rating: +2  

       
     
  • #7   Canthz_B

    When your ex’s facebook relationship status changes to single, it’s time to turn out the lights…the party’s over.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:42 am   rating: +6  

    • #7.1   aaa

      BUT IF I POST ENOUGH AND SEND HIM ENOUGH MESSAGES AND SEND ENOUGH FLOWERS AND GIFTS AND MIXTAPES AND SONGS I WROTE ABOUT US AND PHOTOSHOPPED PICTURES OF US TOGETHER HE’S SURELY GOING TO GET BACK WITH ME. THAT’S JUST THE WAY THESE THINGS WORK.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 12:51 am   rating: +61  

       
     
  • #8   Canthz_B

    Damn, Billy. William’s making a move on Slade and your side of the bed isn’t even cold yet!
    Are you gonna take that shit? Well? ARE YOU?!?!

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:52 am   rating: +23  

     
  • #9   zenvelo

    Billy/William, William/Billy, I hate it when the different personalities fight in public. Maybe that’s why Slade dumped me.

    “He’s my daddy/ he’s my brother, he’s my daddy and my brother…”

    Dec 5, 2008 at 1:25 am   rating: +14  

     
  • #10   HairySwede

    I think william is suggesting that slade have more fun. more fun with william. in bed. billy disagrees.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 1:27 am   rating: +4  

    • #10.1   aaa

      Maybe Billy knows that William is not fun. In bed. With anyone.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 1:41 am   rating: +11  

       
     
  • #11   globalnole

    I had an ex who deleted her facebook account because she didn’t want it to say ‘globalnole’ and ‘abc ‘ have ended their relationship’…..

    Dec 5, 2008 at 2:04 am   rating: +1  

    • #11.1   Ashley

      If my ex’s name was ‘abc’ I’d have ended the relationship too.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 2:49 am   rating: +6  

       
     
  • #12   adeline

    what can I say, I’m a biotch so I like to shove it in my ex’s face that I’ve got someone new, but since I move around a lot (4 countries in the last 3 years) facebook is the only way I can do that. If I lived closer I would go by their offices. Yes the breakup is then awkward…I never learn

    Dec 5, 2008 at 2:14 am   rating: +5  

     
  • #13   Tee

    i’ve had a fake name on facebook for years, only use it to keep in touch with a couple friends who live thousands of miles away now. still don’t find it all that interesting. i like twitter a lot more, but i’m sure it’s just a matter of time before it starts to suck too, if it isn’t already. blah blah blah, sorry forgot to include anything funny in this, panomaly i guess…

    Dec 5, 2008 at 3:26 am   rating: 0  

     
  • #14   Anne Marie

    I thought the relationship updates were bad, being able to comment is worse.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 3:58 am   rating: +8  

    • #14.1   jess

      i SO totally agree with you. I had a nasty breakup with my bf, and people would not stop commenting on his. I got a tearful phone call everytime someone brought it up. also…had to set a bitch straight for shit talking about me on there. we ARE still friends honey. lol

      Dec 6, 2008 at 4:29 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #14.2   Mera

      THIS!

      I didn’t even break up with my bf, we’re still going strong, but I just took my relationship status off, because I didn’t want people bothering me about it (I’m a private person), and it told everyone I was no longer in a relationship.

      I kept getting phone calls from concerned friends trying to make me feel better. It was just odd.

      Dec 7, 2008 at 9:39 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #15   Wade

    William? Billy? Mac?

    Where’s Buddy?

    All Slade wants to do is have some fun.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 6:13 am   rating: +25  

    • #15.1   anglophile

      You know what’s fun? Peeling the labels from your bottle of Bud. That’s the kind of fun single people have.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 6:49 am   rating: +17  

       
    • #15.2   fantasy

      If you are drinking those Buds alone before you peel the label, man it is time to watch out.

      High time to get you a boyfreind, even if you have to make one up!

      You may do something stupid and drunk post on facebook.

      That is just like a drunk dial only everybody and their boss can see it.

      Or your boss?

      And you can never take it back, it just sits there forever on the page and stews in all it’s shame!

      Dec 5, 2008 at 7:24 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #15.3   Ti O

      I like to light matches and watch them burn down to my thick fingers before I crush them out on top of the bar.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 8:29 am   rating: +14  

       
    • #15.4   unholyghost2003

      That elicited and actual real life GROAN from me. I was sitting here in my jammy-jams sipping my coffee when suddenly a wormhole opened up and I was transported back to the 90’s. The up shot is that I was much thinner in the 90’s so it wasn’t all bad.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 9:12 am   rating: +10  

       
    • #15.5   Shawn

      Billy is plain ugly to me. I wonder if he’s ever had a day of fun in his whole life.

      He disagrees that being single is fun, so the answer is probably no.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 9:47 am   rating: +12  

       
    • #15.6   claw71

      Yeah, well I have to wash my car on my lunch break so go ahead and pull one of those labels off a bottle for me.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 9:49 am   rating: +8  

       
    • #15.7   amy d

      Ya’ll aren’t nothing like Billy & me.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 9:54 am   rating: +15  

       
    • #15.8   Emily

      I like a good beer buzz early in the morning

      Dec 5, 2008 at 10:07 am   rating: +9  

       
    • #15.9   Bunnee

      I fail to see how any of these activities can be considered fun. Unless you’re in a bar, facing a giant carwash. Now THAT’s fun, right there.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 10:26 am   rating: +14  

       
    • #15.10   Kaz

      GOD DAMN IT PEOPLE!

      That is one of the worst songs ever, and now you’ve reminded me of it, and now if it gets in my head before I go to sleep, I’ll know who to blame.

      Grrrrrrr.

      Dec 7, 2008 at 1:08 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #16   Goldie

    I’ve got nothing to contribute except another kid story. My son’s friend had an on/off GF when they were younger (like, 10 or 11). They kept breaking up and getting back together. The last time they broke up, though, the guy hacked into his ex’s MySpace account and changed her profile to “male, 18yo, like boys, looking for a serious relationship”. They never got back together again. See, Billy? That’s the way to do it. “I disagree”, pshaw!

    Dec 5, 2008 at 9:32 am   rating: +3  

     
  • #17   claw71

    Billy doesn’t disagree with William, he disagrees with Slade. In his mind Slade is not single. Slade will never be single. “I’m going to love you forever,” he often told Slade. And he meant it. Now most people would say if Billy was that obsessive there wouldn’t have been a 36 minute lapse between Slade’s status change and Billy’s response but it probably took Billy 20 minutes to get back to his PC after seeing Slade make the status change through his binoculars.

    Of course you know William is dead. Billy saw William’s comment as an invitation for “no strings attached” sex and took action. William was clearly waiting in the wings hoping to see Slade become single. That’s why Billy didn’t submit any more messages during the course of this exchange. He was busy disposing of Williams dismembered body and if Slade doesn’t wise up really soon, William won’t be alone much longer.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 9:45 am   rating: +25  

     
  • #18   Mishee

    Damn, Facebook Friday again.

    I hate Facebook Friday almost as much as when RunBarbara and claw71 decide to run a train on me, and then they just end up doing each other while I watch from the bed, still tied up and gagged.

    And the smell… oh lord.. the smell

    *shudder*

    Dec 5, 2008 at 10:01 am   rating: +9  

    • #18.1   claw71

      You love that smell. It reminds you of when your mother used to breast feed you.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 10:08 am   rating: +1  

       
    • #18.2   Shawn

      ooooh that smell. can’t ya smell that smell.

      Dec 5, 2008 at 10:10 am   rating: +3  

       
     
  • #19   Dare

    Palin’s son is in the news for HIS facebook profile now?!?

    Dec 5, 2008 at 10:01 am   rating: +1  

     
  • #20   JoelWhy

    Translation: Bill is not much fun to be around.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:13 pm   rating: 0  

     
  • #21   The Commish

    Facebook moves like this are vexing and insolent.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 12:54 pm   rating: +9  

     
  • #22   Andy

    To quote one Mr. Jimi Hendrix:

    ’scuse me, while I kiss this guy…

    bow wow wow bow wow wow woooooooow

    Dec 5, 2008 at 2:30 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #23   Andy

    What the hell is Slade thinking?! That’s ass-getting suicide right there.

    I know I’m not the only one that gets hit on 10x as much when I’m in a relationship and unable to act on the advances than when I’m single.

    If you’re going to announce to the world that you’re single, you might as well just kick yourself in the balls while you’re at it.

    Dec 5, 2008 at 2:40 pm   rating: +4  

     
  • #24   Juliet

    I love Facebook Fridays! It amazes me how people just put it all out there (yes I read the first comment, I’m just sayin’.) More more more!

    Dec 6, 2008 at 2:30 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #25   Canthz_B

    ♫ When you’re,
    With the Facebooks…
    You’ll have a Gay old time!♫

    Dec 6, 2008 at 5:00 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #26   politacallyincorrect

    Homosexuality is wrong.
    Not morally, per se, biologically.

    We all have a need to procreate. This is deeply embedded within us. We express it by sexual attraction to others of the same species.
    Heterosexuals are attracted to the opposite sex. This affords the means of moving their genes from generation to generation thereby perpetuating the species, in essence, continuing life. That is what life does…continue to perpetuate itself.
    Homosexuals have the same need to move their genes on to another by means of sexual reproduction. In other words, they want to have sex too.
    The problem is that they are attracted to others of the same physical sex…anathema to the natural order of procreation through sexual means which requires a male/female attraction, and vice verse.
    Morality aside, homosexuality is a deviation from the norm required by nature.
    There is nothing “homophobic” or “intolerant” about saying that homosexuals are deviants…not “morally” deviant…they deviate from the natural order of things, in fact, from the natural NECESSITY of things, clinically speaking.

    Dec 6, 2008 at 5:34 pm   rating: +2  

    • #26.1   Canthz_B

      Yeah, right…try learning to spell “politically” first.

      BOY!! I LOVE LURKING!!

      BRING IT ON, ASSHOLE!! :evil:

      Dec 6, 2008 at 5:43 pm   rating: +5