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What to Know About Updating Your Facebook Relationship Status

By Amy Cottreau-Moore

Published Mar 9, 2021

Here's what you should know about how to change your Facebook relationship status and how to adjust its privacy settings...

Looking at someone's Facebook profile is the best way to see who someone is dating or related to "on the down-low".  However, if you want to change your relationship status on Facebook, and keep the change private—this is the article for you...

There are 13 relationship status types available to select on Facebook. Some of them; like married, single, in a relationship, engaged, divorced, separated, and widowed; are well-known terms around the world. Meanwhile, others require a bit of an explanation depending on where you live

Here are a few of the other relationship terms Facebook includes and what they mean:

• In a civil union: This term was created originally for same-sex couples and is defined as a union with legal rights similar to marriage. The term is used in certain states in the U.S.
• In a domestic partnership: When two people live together but are not married.
• It's complicated: This is not a legal relationship term and it is typically used when a couple is not in a relationship but they are together. Some people use this when their relationship is fraught with tension.
• In an open relationship: This is a relationship that is non-exclusive. People in an open relationship court other people while dating each other.

The family statuses are fairly simple and require no explanation: mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandmother, grandfather, step-mother, step-father, step-daughter, step-son, nephew, niece, cousin, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and father-in-law.

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Changing your relationship status on Facebook is easy, and you can even tailor the privacy settings to suit your current situation.

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To change your relationship status on Facebook:

1. Go to your Facebook profile.
2. Click on Edit Public Details which is below your profile picture and personal information. (On Facebook
3. Select Edit in the Details section.
4. Scroll down to Relationship.
5. Here, you can unselect the box next to your relationship status so it won't appear in your Intro on your profile, however, the status will still be public in your Bio.
6. Click on the pencil icon.
7. This is where you can change your relationship status, enter the name of the person you're in the relationship with, and select pertinent dates for your relationship (anniversary).

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Now you can change the privacy of your relationship status:

1. On the bottom left corner, you will see an earth icon, this is the privacy standing of your relationship status. You can change it to Public, Friends, or Only me.
2. Click Save to save your changes.
3. Click Save again to save all of your changes.

You can also add family members to your Facebook profile so your Friends will be able to see who you are related to.

Related: How to Manage Your Facebook Privacy Settings for Specific Posts

To add a family member to your profile on Facebook:

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1. Go to your profile.
2. Below your relationship status, click on See your about info.
3. Scroll down to the Family Members section.
4. Select Add a Family Member.
5. Enter the family member's name.
6. Select your relationship with that family member.
7. On the bottom left corner, you will once again see an earth icon, this is the privacy standing of your family member relationship. You can change it to Public, Friends, or Only me.
8. Click Save.

Now you have complete control over Facebook when it comes to your relationship and family statuses.  You can choose if you want to keep these unions private or show them off!

Consult Your Partner Before Changing Facebook Relationship Settings

Before making any changes to your Facebook status, it's always a good idea to talk to your partner and ask if you should change your status to "In a Relationship" if you're dating or "Single" if you've decided to go your separate ways.

Because making these changes without both parties knowing can lead to some awkward moments.

How to Change Your Relationship Status on Facebook

• To change your relationship status on Facebook, you'll need to head to your page's "Family and Relationships" menu.
• Facebook gives eleven different relationship statuses you can change between, including "Single," "Divorced," and even just "It's complicated. "
• You can change your relationship status at any time from the Facebook website.
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Facebook gives you a wealth of options to customize your profile with. In fact, there are so many that it can often feel overwhelming, especially if you're starting from scratch.

Regardless of how long you've had your profile, one of the updates you'll want to change right away is your relationship status. 

Here's how to navigate through your profile and make that change, using Facebook's website on your Mac or PC.

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How to change your relationship status on Facebook

1. Go to facebook.com on your Mac or PC and log into your account, if needed. Once there, click your name in the top toolbar to get to your profile.

2. Click the "About" button at the top of your profile.

3. Once you've reached your About page, which contains most of your personal information, click "Family and Relationships" in the left sidebar.

4. If you've never set your relationship status on Facebook before, click the empty box labeled "Add your relationship status." If you've already set your status in the past, hover your mouse over your current status and click the word "Edit" when it appears on the right.

5. A box labeled "Relationship Status" will appear. Click the box to open a dropdown menu, where you can choose from a number of different relationship types. Once you've selected one, click "Save Changes. "

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How do I change my marital status information on Facebook?

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To add or change your marital status information:

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Click the icon in the top right corner of the Facebook window, then select your name.

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Scroll down to the Marital Status section.

Click Enter marital status or icon to change information already entered.

Select your marital status and use the audience selector to select your privacy setting.

Click Save.

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Click the icon in the upper right corner of the Facebook window, and then select your name.

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Scroll down to the Marital Status section.

Click Add marital status or icon to change the information already entered.

Select your marital status and use the audience selector to select your privacy setting.

Click Save.

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The concept of status in social networks. Facebook can have different interpretations. How to view and where to change this information, read more….

About terms

It has happened since the very beginning of the existence of social networks that two basic concepts are understood as status:

1. A short saying that expresses your views on life, or just seemed interesting to you.
2. Your current status.
3. Your marital or personal status: married, in a relationship, single, etc.

All this can be indicated on Facebook, but these information fields have a completely different name. nine0003

The main way to change

First, let's figure out how to put a status on Facebook, or write an interesting thought under your profile:

1. Log in to your social network account.
2. On the main page, click on your avatar with the name (in the upper right corner or the top line in the column on the left).
3. You are in your profile, click the "Edit profile" button.
4. Here you can set a photo for the avatar and for the cover of your personal page, and write a little "About yourself" below. nine0096
5. Click "Add" or edit
6. You can briefly describe your lifestyle, eg traveller, writer, collector. Or write your favorite phrase.
7. Please note that you cannot change the audience for this information. Here, the default value is always “Available to everyone”, which means that what you write about yourself can be read by any Facebook user.
8. Click Save.

Another option is relationships

In social networks, it is worth writing honestly about your personal life. People who already have a couple will be able to avoid ambiguous hints and unnecessary contacts. And those who are not yet in a relationship may find a partner much faster. After all, Facebook is millions of free people around the world, open for communication.

So, let's figure out how to make or change the status on Facebook:

1. Enter your profile (click on the profile picture).
2. Click the Edit Profile button. nine0096
3. Scroll down the window, in the "Tell me more about yourself" section, click "Edit".
4. In the column "Marital status" click on the pencil and select one of the twelve options. Facebook has provided statuses for all occasions: married, divorced, single, in an open relationship and much more.
5. For the statuses "Married", "In partnership", "In a relationship", "Engaged", you can specify the name of the partner, as well as the date the relationship began.
6. Below you can add the profiles of your family members if they are also registered on Facebook: click on the line "Family member", a list of all your friends will open. Choose a person, then indicate who he is to you (father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, etc.)
7. You can set the degree of privacy for both marital status and relatives. This information can be seen by all users, only friends or no one at all (just me).

Important: in order to add a relative to Facebook, you must first become friends in the social network.

About the moment

If you are itching to tell your followers about what is happening to you right now, you can create a post with feelings or actions:

1. On the main page of the social network, click on the line "What's new with you?"
2. Select the “feelings/actions” emoji at the bottom of the post window ⇑
3. This will open a window with two tabs, where you can find dozens of feelings and actions suitable for almost any situation, for example: “happy, heading to Paris”.
4. Click "publish", after which the audience will know that this page has updated its status on facebook, which means that something interesting is happening on it. nine0096

About Status account:

This Facebook section will not tell anything new about you to subscribers.

It is available only to you, and you cannot change anything in it:

1. Go to your personal profile (click on the avatar).
2. Click on the three dots on the right under the cover photo.
3. Select the "Account Status" line.
4. Here you can see: the name of the profile and its ID, restrictions that can be imposed by the social network for violating the rules, as well as the pages and groups that you manage. nine0096

On an android phone and iPhone

On a phone, in the Facebook mobile application, you can set the status as "About yourself" and about your personal life (the instructions for iPhone and Android are similar):

1. Open the application , log in.
2. Tap the ≡ icon and then "View your profile".
3. Select Edit Public Information.
4. In the Information section, click Change.
5. In the "Biography" field, you can write about yourself briefly or simply state your views in the form of a well-aimed statement.
6. In the "Marital status" field, tap the pencil and select your status from the options provided. By the way, if you do not want to indicate anything, you can select dashes.
7. If you have a couple, you can write the name of the partner and the date of the beginning of the relationship
8. Choose who can see this information: tap the globe icon and set the privacy level. nine0096
9. Click Save.