Engagement is not just a Facebook status!

[peteyt]

Why is that today's youth seem to think Engagement is just a Facebook status, just a normal status without any real meaning.

I mean I've seen loads of people being engaged at times I'd call too early but today I noticed something. Someone I talk to on and off had split up with their boyfriend who I believe she might have been engaged to - They split late December early January and a week and a half ago she started dating someone else. About a week ago she then became engaged.

Obviously if people want to do it then fair enough but it does both annoy me and also make me laugh. To me engagement is a commitment. Dating is just really dating, and while you might at the time feel like you want to/could spend the rest of your life with the person, or at least hope you do, it's early days, your just learning about this person, finding out stuff including if you are compatible. To me engagement is something that should only be considered after at least a year, but I'd go as far as 2 years upwards. To me it's the stage when you've learnt everything about each other, you've lasted a while, and realise that this is the person you want to settle down with. I just feel to most it's lost its meaning, it's just another status on Facebook.

Sorry was in a ranting mood ha

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[Bails]

tl;dr most.

loads of my friends ask for 'facebook marriages' - mainly girls - and it doesn't have any meaning, you're right, idk why people do it but it seems like engagement, in this day and age, means best friend.

[Icemaniceice]

It makes me really mad when people say that they are married or engaged to people when they really aren't. It's really stupid that people do that. I wish people could be punished for playing around with that, but unfortunately there is no of telling if they are lying or not.

[Rozi]

lol

calm your jets guys
facebook is not real life
it doesn't effect you

[buttons]

i saw someone propose to his girlfriend of about 3 months in Facebook but also saying "you should have told me you cheated though" lol anyway I don't really care, look at elderly people now who got engaged young and have stayed married for decades, don't think it matters if you sleep with someone on the first date or get engaged early, if you're perfect for each other do whatever you want
i don't get annoyed or mad cause what others do with their life shouldn't and doesnt affect me

[mrwoooooooo]

its their life, so it has nothing to do with you

[Icemaniceice]

lol

calm your jets guys
facebook is not real life
it doesn't effect you

But it's suppose to be real life, employers treat it as such.

[GommeInc]

It's odd but nothing to care about really. Whatever floats their boats

[Rozi]

But it's suppose to be real life, employers treat it as such.

it's not 'supposed' to be anything
it's a personal page for an individual to use as they wish
it's their choice to represent themselves as they wish

[GommeInc]

it's not 'supposed' to be anything
it's a personal page for an individual to use as they wish
it's their choice to represent themselves as they wish

Precisely. If an employer spies on a person's Facebook account and assumes they will act exactly the same as their e-personality then the employer has a really serious HR problem on their hands.

If they do the job well, treat their customers and superiors with respect then that's all that matters. Spying shows a lack of trust, and a lack of trust is just as bad as privately bad mouthing the company / employer.