There are people on Facebook you instantly regret virtually befriending, and those people are invariably in relationships. No sooner have you clicked "Add as friend," and they're already polluting your news feed with inappropriate personal exchanges, disgustingly soft status updates about their significant other, and T.M.I. accounts of their "fabulous" weekend together.
The voyeuristic joy Facebook provides can sour with a single stomach-churning look into a couple's life who either care too much about what others think, or seem to be completely unaware that they have an audience. Suddenly, you've seen far too much to abstain passing judgement. Here's how you can avoid being that couple: How To Avoid Being Annoying About Your Relationship on Facebook.
By Shanté Cosme (@ShanteCosme)
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Don't Post Things You Should Be Texting
Think Before Changing Your Relationship Status
Keep It PG
Never Make a Shared Account
Don't Carry Out an Entire Conversation on a Thread
Don't Revolve Your Entire Facebook Life Around Your Significant Other
There are certain couples who make it clear that they more or less never leave each other's side (or their computers). These are the couples continually checking in together (six times in one night...the fuck?) and have entire photo albums devoted to pics of their significant other. And the pictures are not even cool or vaguely interesting. Instead, they are shots of sugar's face from different angles, doing mundane things, e.g. "Aww, my guy on the couch."