{"id":301,"date":"2008-09-13T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2008-09-13T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T21:29:54","slug":"facebook-as-a-giant-relationship-gossip-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/facebook-as-a-giant-relationship-gossip-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook as a giant relationship gossip feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/relationships.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302\" title=\"Lots of comments on realtionship changes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/relationships.png\" alt=\"Lots of comments on realtionship changes\" width=\"240\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/relationships.png 240w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/relationships-130x300.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lots of comments on relationship changes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was looking at my Facebook feed today as a pattern suddenly occurred to me. From all the things people post to their account or change, almost the only one that consistently gets at least one comment from someone is when they <strong>change relationship status<\/strong> to a <em>lower level<\/em>. Going <strong>from married to single<\/strong> or <strong>declaring that it&#8217;s complicated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago I speculated that it&#8217;s unfortunate that Facebook doesn&#8217;t allow you publicly lose a friend, but <em>luckily<\/em> enough <strong>it allows you to publicly dump someone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As evidence I present this nice rendering of my Facebook time line of today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be short today and spare a lenghty rant about the <em>importance of relationships in human society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/loosing-a-facebook-linkedin-orkut-friend\/\">Losing a Facebook\/Orkut\/Linkedin friend<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/a12d64e2-683d-4f0f-8660-12e76f8153f1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_c.png?x-id=a12d64e2-683d-4f0f-8660-12e76f8153f1\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at my Facebook feed today as a pattern suddenly occurred to me. From all the things people post to their account or change, almost the only one that consistently gets at least one comment from someone is when they change relationship status to a lower level. Going from married to single or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[74,76,422,421,419],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-design","tag-facebook","tag-relationships","tag-social-network","tag-society"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}