<p>People say "OMG THEY"RE GOING OUT" "O NO THEY BROKE UP"</p>
<p>Why do you have to label it a relationship? Feels like your limited to only one person of the opposite gender and if you talk to anyone else things will get deadly
And if you do "go out" u gotta change your facebook status too, what a a hassle!</p>
<p>Why not just spend time iwth someone and when you get along quite well marry and shoot out a couple of babies</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>It’s because you ARE limited to one person of the opposite gender. I mean you can talk to other people but you can’t TALK to anyone else.</p>
<p>i was going to say because it’s a ship of relations. never mind, carry on…</p>
<p>^ Lol that’s cute :P</p>
<p>I agree about the facebook thing. It’s stupid. I feel like people are now going out just so they can change their status…>.> People! You don’t need to change your status to prove you’re in a relationship! <em>sigh</em></p>
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<p>I’m living proof that this worked out well for my parents… My dad decided as a teen to forget the whole serial dating game.</p>
<p>^As opposed to dead proof? o_O</p>
<p>Oh, I finally get what the OP was trying to say. Yea, I’ve pondered about this too.</p>
<p>If two people like each other, they can just confirm their feelings for each other and do all the stuff that people “going out” with each other do. And it’ll stay that way for however long their feelings remain synchronized. </p>
<p>It’s like Bradd Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They love each other, so they stay together. Simple as that.</p>
<p>But nowadays, you have to change your facebook status and classify yourselves as “in a relationship”. It feels a little unnatural.</p>
<p>I suspect for some people, or genders, serial dating (excellent term, btw), is to feed their pride or convince themselves or others that they have value. It is extremely immature.</p>
<p>I think it’s because most people don’t truly like each other so they have to confirm it to make it true. “So…we’re going out…right?! I can tell my friends about us right??!”</p>
<p>If they don’t confirm that they’re “going out”, then they feel no obligation to stay faithful to each other since they’re not “in a relationship”.</p>
<p>I feel like “relationships” sound better when no one knows but the two going out. People always find out in high school, which makes them last so short, because the two people don’t actually like each other and there’s always ********, or sometimes, maybe most of the time true gossip.</p>
<p>Fairy Dreams totally describes it way better than I said it.</p>
<p>if only I knew how to quote…</p>
<p>I also agree about the facebook thing</p>
<p>kind of like how people like to take pictures just so they can post them on fb…smh LOL</p>
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<p>Just take out the asterisk.</p>
<p>But yea, I’ve been entertaining this thought for a while. It stemmed from my dislike of high school serial dating.</p>
<p>It’s probably due to some inherent need for validation, or security that their relationship is valid. Like some expression, “It isn’t official until it’s Facebook official”(although idk, maybe I only heard it once, but I liked it lol) Maybe for others it may be to brag?</p>
<p>Although tbqh, I haven’t actually seen anyone update their status, they way the OP’s post describes it. Most of the people I know typically update weeks/months after their relationship started.</p>
<p>I read an article about how a groom in a wedding paused before kissing the bride to change his status on facebook to “Married” in front of everyone in the church</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>I just realized that your username is not “misanthropy” :O</p>
<p>Oh, that wouldn’t have been good</p>
<p>So you don’t hook out with attractive members of the opposite sex. <p</p>
<p>No one has platonic friendships which are only tacit. Everyone will easily say “This is my friend.” An inability to say “This is my significant other” (or whatever: gf, bf, sweet baboo) implies that one is either uncomfortable, insincere, casually involved, or otherwise insignis.</p>
<p>^ Who the hell says sweet baboo?</p>