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Facebook Challenges to Consider (In Love) and New Relationship
Potential vulnerability and impact of posting your new love relationship status
When you’re active on Facebook, your new love relationship is under magnification. If you choose to announce your status.
When you’re in a NEW relationship, you’re vulnerable. You likely want to share your joy, but hesitate on the best timing. Do you do it now or wait until the relationship settles in a bit? You’re excited or maybe giddy to announce to your Facebook friend-sphere, your new addition and happy status.
But wait… proceed with caution!
On Facebook, your status, profile, and photos are examined and exposed. You can currently delete but you can’t erase what has already been posted. It’s easy for people to share with just a tap on the screen. Almost anyone can forward and save a photo.
If you have a large set of friends or followers, you never know who their connections are. Or who they know. And what they possibly know about your new partner that you may not even have discovered yet in your course of dating. There are always people who know a bit of history about your new mate. And who do they know? Your new partners’ connections.
Remember the days when you only had a phone call, letter/card writing, and in person ways to…
