FBO

What is it about facebook that makes everything official? Like, you know something really happened because you saw it on facebook. I found out that Heath Ledger and Brittany Murphy died through status updates. I found out about the earthquake in Haiti through facebook. I learned that a friend from high school died and that one needed a kidney donor through facebook. I learned that several friends were married through facebook (obviously they weren’t good friends, but still.). It’s just amazing what facebook can do. I joined the ranks of making things "facebook official" today: I changed my relationship status to “in a relationship”. One of my friends said that it’s official because it’s on facebook (or, FBO, if you will). And she was so right! It’s now official. I’ve told the world: I HAVE A BOYFRIEND! Isn’t that what making it FBO is doing? It’s shouting from the proverbial mountaintops (a friend from school is probably going to criticize my use of “proverbial” there by saying that’s probably not a proverb. He can shove it. I’m using it.) Is it the publicizing that makes it so exciting? “I’m going to put this out there and don’t care who sees it!” I was a little worried that TB will think it’s lame. I haven’t had my relationship status public since I started facebook many, many moons ago. I didn’t see the need to shout from the mountaintops “I’M SINGLE!!!!!!!!” You know? But, now I have a boyfriend. That’s exciting. And newsworthy. I don’t know if TB is going to change his status. I don’t know if I really care. He said he’s not going to just to make me mad. Such a caring mate I’ve chosen. Who am I kidding? I love that he pisses me off on purpose. Keeps me on my toes. I’m not going to mention my change in status. I’ll let him discover that on his own; see what he does with it. I just love that within seconds of my changing the status, several of my good girlfriends commented. I’m shocked. Ok, not really. I was kind of hoping that my friends would comment. It’s like being giddy and squealing that someone wants to date me. YAY! His mom is my facebook friend. I’m wondering if she’ll comment. Maybe she’ll tell her son to change his status. He may not just because she’ll tell him to. I’m just excited that I feel confident enough in our relationship that I was able to change it. I mean, you don’t want to do it if you’re unsure, cause then if/when you break up, you have to change it back. And no one wants that to be public. I think people are less inclined to shout from the mountaintops “I got dumped!!” Though, at least that elicits sympathy and pity. Friends offering to come over with ice cream and movies. But still, not something you want to go through. It’s only change worthy when you’re confident. I’m confident in TB. I like him a lot, and I know he’s crazy about me too. He tells me that daily. Yesterday he told me that he was going through withdrawals. I pointed out that he gets to see me soon in August. I know that’s not so long, but it was my turn to convince him that’s not so long. In a few days when I’m sad about the distance, it’ll be his turn to calm me down by repeating the same thing I told him. We have a cute little unspoken pattern. But hey, at least we (read: I) took the step today of making it FBO. And, as one of my girlfriends said “It's a pretty exciting day in a girl’s life when she gets to change her FB status.” I couldn’t agree more. Let’s hope he agrees. I’d hate to have to change my status back already.