A look into the changes that Facebook has imposed on the world of dating. For FILM260, Queen's University.

1. The Flame: Dating
The Snuffer: Facebook
By Jennifer Hunter

2. The world of dating was hard enough before
the emergence of Facebook in 2004...
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3. the traditional, romantic
Since then, Facebook has found
a way to change
experience of relationships.
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4. “Participants almost universally cited
as their primary tool for interaction early
in the experimenting stage of romantic
relationship development”
- I Now Pronounce You FBO
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5. Step One: Meet them.
Step Two: Stalk them.
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6. We often Facebook stalk to “reduce
some of the uncertainty in relationships”
- Allison McCann
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7. In its third survey of more than 5,000 singles, dating website
Match.com found that 48% of women admit that they
research a first date on Facebook.
- Catherine Townsend
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8. So now that you know
everything
about them,
say goodbye to the
giddiness
and
butterflies
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before that first date.

9. Step Three: Decision Time.
“This status is a milestone for couples.”
- I Now Pronounce You FBOImage: Jennifer Hunter

10. “Deciding to go
- I Now Pronounce You FBO
[Facebook Official]
means laying your emotional cards on the table,
face up.”
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11. Those that displayed their significant other in their profile
picture and were listed as ‘in a relationship’ were
more likely to stay together
- Allison McCann
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12. On the contrary,
disclosing too much information online about the
relationships was negatively associated with
intimacy
satisfaction
and
between couples
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13. Posts on their partner’s
wall from friends who
they didn’t know also
provoked
Jealousy
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14. So, what happens when
things start to go sour?
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15. Step Four: The Break-Up.
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16. -Gretchen Kelmer
“People feel more pressure from friends and family
to stay together when they have their partner in their
profile picture and relationship status”...
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17. ...reducing the
likelihood of
actually
breaking up.
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18. Maybe that couple profile picture and relationship
status wasn’t a good idea after all.
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19. Not to mention - when it happens - everyone will know about it.
Everyone.
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20. Step Five: Delete or Not to Delete?
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21. “Remaining Facebook friends with an
ex delayed emotional recovery and led
to greater distress over the breakup,
negative feelings, sexual desire and
longing for the ex-partner”
- Allison McCann
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22. 95% of young adults said they
would use Facebook or MySpace
to check out their ex's new partner
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23. So, Unfriending them will solve
everything...
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Right?

24. WRONG.
When your online social lives are so entangled,
it makes it almost impossible not to see
what your ex it up to via your mutual friends.Image: geralt (Pixabay)

25. Step Six: Learn from
your Mistake,
and
Adapt.
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26. “Facebook has created a whole new slew of
obstacles and awkward conversations
that previously didn’t exist for people in the dreadful
world of dating”
- Allison McCann
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27. We need to become more digitally aware
about what we show the world online, and the
emotionally vulnerable state it can put us in.
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28. Facebook has become the main platform for
online social activity
and
communication...
We can’t ignore its
impact and power
over today’s romantic relationships
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29. Credits
All images are licensed under the
Creative Commons Non-
Commercial agreement from
Flickr, morgueFile
Pixabay
and
Image: hotblack (morgueFile)

30. Sources
http://www.buzzfeed.com/atmccann/how-facebook-
ruined-dating-and-breaking-up-too
http://mashable.com/2010/04/10/facebook-dating/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2310485/
Facebook-stalking-day-rule-The-new-dating-rules-
impatient-digital-generation.html
http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/i-now-
pronounce-you-fbo-facebook-official-51307/
Image: dhester (morgueFile)