Relationships and social media

Photo by Christina Morillo

On behalf of a friend, I am wondering when it should be appropriate to start introducing your (romantic) relationship to your friends, family, and social media. Yes, I am very much aware that it varies upon relationship to relationship and that it does happen in stages and overall it needs to involve the consent of all sides and ensure that everyone is comfortable with it. However, is there a general consensus of when that should happen? And who has the right to know first?

It's funny how we didn't need to think about this like a century ago (or at most 50 years ago). However, with the introduction of technology (aka computers or more specifically the internet), we as a human species started thinking about how to show off our relationship online trying to garner the opinions of thousands of strangers. When really, in the end, that doesn't matter. All that matters is the opinions of you and your partner and those closest to the both of you, but namely your pet. (Even if it does freak out the both of you.)

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~ Stacy N.