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Now, to borrow an expression from Facebook's default relationship options, everything is just — complicated.
"The relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation.
"Casual Encounters was created in response to user demand for a section that allowed for a wide range of personal meeting and relationship options," Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, said by e-mail message before the recent murders took place.
Technology has played a major role in increasing awareness of relationship options for a new generation, said Janet W. Hardy, who wrote, with Dossie Easton, "The Ethical Slut," a 1997 book advocating nonmonogamous relationships that has sold more than 100,000 copies (a second edition was published in 2009).
The relationship options for new contacts remain a bit of joke, yet it would be stupid to believe that this will always be the case.
Past research has found that people who are in relationships tend to lose their wandering eye over time; because of this, the study's authors sought to investigate whether more attractive people still maintain interest in alternative relationship options.
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To use a phrase popularised by Facebook's relationship status options: "It's complicated".
The company sells colorful plastic bracelets featuring the 5-different relationship status options in English for €5.99.
Last year Facebook added civil unions and domestic partnerships as relationship status options, and the company won a GLAAD award this month.
"That will continue to be something that all online spheres wrestle with and need to be cognizant of". See the screenshot of the new relationship status options below.
Earlier this year, Facebook also expanded its relationship status options to include "civil union" and "domestic partnership," a change that was made in consultation with the advocacy groups.
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