The Story Behind The Facebook Divorce
The other day Wife was watching TV while I was mindlessly surfing around on the interwebs when a thought popped into my head, ‘Why don’t we change our Facebook statuses to not married?’. Wife and I laughed about this for a while talking about how funny it would be to have it post on everyone’s page, ‘John and Wife are no longer married’. All laughing aside, we decided to do it, just to see what would happen. I’m not really sure if this would really be considered a Social Media Experiment or not, but it definitely is a fun way for me to pass time, and isn’t that the point of Social Media?
We decided to start off small, I changed my status to ‘It’s Complicated’. I guess, technically, we still have a relationship together so we are still ‘Facebook Official’. Man I love that term. Anyway, within 24 hours I had received a few different text messages asking if everything was OK. Chuckling to myself, I carried on with life, my REAL life.
The next day, Wife decided to change her status. Now Wife was in a complicated relationship with John. Now things started to get interesting. I stopped receiving messages but she got flooded. People making sure she was OK, and a few of the smarter ones even thought it was me messing with people.
A few days later, I changed our statuses to Single. Let the fun begin. The calls came in, the whisperings behind our backs began, and now our poor friends were even starting to get bothered by this. I had to inform a few of my buddies of what was going on, so they could play along better and Wife did the same.
As to not take it too far, I decided to make a public service announcement. It was a bit too long to post on a normal Facebook wall post, so I had to create a ‘Note’, I also made a Facebook Divorce Announcement on JohnNemec.com.
As the messages rolled in, I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats. But the only thing that almost worries me is I may have just lost some Facebook credibility. Like the boy who cried wolf, no one will believe my relationship status ever again. But I guess it really doesn’t matter anyway. Not that I’m going to spill my dirty laundry on Facebook to begin with. Whatever, it’s just a website people.
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