Disable your relationship status on Facebook without making the news
The dead tree version of Wired (March 2008 issue) has a handy hint for how to break up on Facebook without sending a news blast to your friends list about it.
To change your relationship status without the press release, go to Facebook’s privacy options, deselect “Remove My Relationship Status” then, in your profile settings, change “In a Relationship” back to its default setting “Select Status”.
Voila, now you won’t be broadcasting the news of your recent split to the world.
The article points out that your ex’s Mini Feed will still display an update in *their* relationship status, so you can’t get away scot free. They’ll need to delete it themselves. Oh well.
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or go to your privacy settings, and go to your news feeds options, and uncheck the box that correlates to relationship status.
Or you can change your status and then go to your mini feed and hide the story….
Sure – someone may have seen it in the 30 seconds it was changed – but it’s not really hard to hide info from your feed
@GS: Unfortunately your mini-feed isn’t tied to the big news feed, and unless you change your privacy settings, simply deleting the info from the mini-feed doesn’t remove it from the news feed.
Yes, it does.
thanks stephanie. your directions were clear.
the author’s steps were unclear:
1) go to Facebook’s privacy options
where it says privacy on the upper right hand side? ok.
2) deselect “Remove My Relationship Status”
where? i don’t see the option.
3) in your profile settings, change “In a Relationship” back to its default setting “Select Status”.
where? i don’t see the option.
instructions failed.
This is kinda off topic, but does any one know how to change the the status of some of your friends to restricted after they’ve been added?
Good advise Stephanie – Thank – you.
How can I prevent receiving mini-feeds or news-feeds from specific friends ?
thank you
can this be undone? i have removed mine from my account but want it back, is there any way to do this? or is it gone for good once you do it?
Here’s how I removed relationship status completely from “info” page on profile. First, go to your profile. Open “basic information.” Use the pull-down menu on relationship status. Here’s the important part: above the option for “single,” there’s a completely blank option — there’s no text, and it’s hard to see at first, but it is there. Pick that blank option. Hit “save changes.” That should work. Let me know if you agree.
Ethan, you are a star. I have been lookinq for this for almost a year…. the completely blank option is hardly obvious!!!
Ethan you are brilliant!!
Megan and Ethan. if you already have a boy/girlfriend, it will tell them ” your boy/girlfriend has removed you as their boy/girlfriend…. thats what we are trying to NOT do.
okay, heres how you hide your relationship status WITHOUT notifying anyone including your current spouse.
-go to ‘edit my profile’ (under your profile picture)
-once the editing box opens, click on the information box that has your relationhip status.
-A small box should open that has the options to hide certain information including your relationship status.
-Click on relationships and your golden.
Editing that information will NOT go to your news feed and will NOT notify anyone including your spouse. However, if anyone on your friends list visits your profile, they will see that your relationship is blank even if your still currently in that relationship. This also implies to your spouse when he/she visits your profile page
instead i wanna hide my relationship status, i have been tried to change my status from in a relationship with xxx to engaged to xxx, and of course hoping that it will be appears on both our profile just like before.. but from the moment i changed it, it only appears on my profile or his.. it didn’t appear on both.. i’m wondering why.. tried many different ways, but didn’t work.. does anyone know how to solve this? thanks..