This document provides instructions for changing your Facebook relationship status without notifying friends. It explains that by default, Facebook will alert all friends if you change your status from a relationship to single. However, it outlines steps to make the change more privately by selecting the "Only Me" privacy option for your relationship status and box. This allows the status to be changed without notifications to friends on their News Feeds. It also describes how to remove the status update from your Timeline if accidentally broadcast.
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1. How to Change Your
facebook Relationship Status
Without Alerting Friends
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2. Facebook Relationship Status
The new Timeline design
makes much of your
relationship status, so we'd
recommend erring on the
side of caution about what
you choose to broadcast.
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3. The Break Up
If you change your status
from being in a relationship
with someone to being single
using the default
settings, Facebook will alert
all your friends to this via
their News Feeds.
If you want to change your
status in a more subtle
manner, we can show you
how.
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4. Edit Your Profile
From your Facebook
profile page, click on the
"About" link under your
profile picture.
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5. Edit Your Basic Info
From here, first open
the "Basic Info" box by
clicking the "Edit" icon
in the top-right corner.
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6. Manage Your Privacy
Click on the globe icon to the
right of the "Relationship
status" section.
Select "Only me" and save
your changes
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7. Relationship Box
Now, scroll down to the
"Relationship" box and hit
the "Edit" icon on the right
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8. Manage Your Privacy
Now click the globe icon
to being up your privacy
options.
Select "Only me" and
change your relationship
status view the drop-
down menu.
Once you hit "Save," your
relationship will be
"cancelled" (Facebook's
choice of wording) and
no news alert will be
flashed to your friend's
news feeds.
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9. After the Event
If you did accidentally
broadcast your new single
status to the world, there is
a way to remove it from
your Timeline (and your
friend's news feeds) after
the event.
Click on your "Activity log"
on the right-hand side of
your profile page directly
beneath your cover photo.
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10. Hidden From Your Timeline
You should see your
relationship status change in
your chronological log
Click on the circle to the
right of the status and select
"Hidden from Timeline
In addition to hiding it from
your profile, this will also
mean the update disappears
from your friend's News
Feeds.
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11. Have Your Say
So, do you happily broadcast
the status of your love-life to
all your Facebook friends?
Or do you prefer to keep
such things private?
Have your say about
Facebook relationship status
updates in the comments
below.
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