By the book…

Reality chick had to cover this little modern day dilemma eventually. Facebook.
Don’t pretend you don’t spend half your life on it updating your status to ‘eating cookies and cutting my toenails’, adding the ‘Send Care Bears’ application, posting up pictures of your latest holiday in order to make your 78 friends really jealous or changing your profile pic to a moody snap of a windswept beach.
What RC wants to weigh in on is when Facebook meets your love life. By that I mean that pesky little relationship status button on your profile. There are six options to choose from at the moment: Single, In a Relationship, Engaged, Married, It’s Complicated (oooh, is it?) and In An Open relationship (are you just you cheeky bugger...!?)
Problems abound with these limited options. Let me outline a few.
If you’re happily in a relationship, and you’ve ticked that box on Facebook, but your partner hasn’t, does that mean you’re more committed than they are? Or are they just more private than you? What about if you’re in a new relationship and you don’t want to jinx it, but you’re not really single anymore? Do you take down your single status and hope he/she doesn’t freak out that you’re getting serious too soon? What about if the guy you’re seeing chooses to click the It’s Complicated button? What about if you want to leave your relationship status blank, but your partner wants you to announce you two are an item and presses the In a relationship/engaged to/married to [insert name here] button?
Perhaps Facebook needs to spend less time on pesky new applications and instead put up a few more options to incorporate the gray areas in relationships status. Here’s a couple of options I've come up with:

• Sort of dating someone, but still looking ... are you available?
• Just met someone, so I don’t want to jinx it here, thanks
• Having loads of sex with inappropriate people
• Stalking my ex
• Dating a sex doll

Before I fly off, I’d like also to start an online petition banning the broken heart dinkus appearing when you change your status from in a relationship to single. There’s really no need for a net-working application to announce your heartbreak to the entire world.
So – this is your homework project people. Have you run into status issues with Facebook? How would you like to describe your relationship?