There are too many political considerations involved in maintaining a Facebook page. For example, let's say your friend Jane starts dating Richard and, as a result, Richard becomes your Facebook friend. But then one day Jane and Richard break up. Do you banish Richard as a Facebook friend?
And at what point do you declare yourself "in a relationship" in your Facebook profile? If you do it too early, you may scare off your new love interest. If you do it too late, you may offend him or her. It's a balancing act. It says something about your own psyche, as well, and how you are feeling about the burgeoning relationship. If you are giddy about it and want to tell the world, you'll declare it very quickly. If you are indifferent, at best, you'll avoid declaring it to the Facebook universe. So, until you feel comfortable posting it on Facebook, are you really "in a relationship?"
For all these reasons and more, I have not created a Facebook page for myself. And then this weekend, another issue asserted itself into my decisionmaking process.
What happens to a person's Facebook page when they die? Who has the power to delete them from the system?
Which leads to the existential question even more important than the dating issue ... if you still have a Facebook profile, are you really dead?
It's an unanswerable question, like if a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? It's just all too much to comprehend.
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