How to Change Your Facebook Relationship Status Without Alerting Friends


 
 1. Facebook Relationship Status

The new Timeline design makes much of your relationship status,
so we'd recommend erring on the side of caution about what you choose to broadcast.




2. The Break-Up

If you change your status from being in a relationship with someone to being single using the default settings, Facebook will alert all your friends to this via their News Feeds.

If you want to change your status in a more subtle manner, we can show you how.


3. Edit Your Profile

From your Facebook profile page, click on the "About" link under your profile picture.

4. Edit Your Basic Info

From here, first open the "Basic Info" box by clicking the "Edit" icon in the top-right corner.


5. Manage Your Privacy

Click on the globe icon to the right of the "Relationship status" section.

Select "Only me" and save your changes.


6. Relationship Box

Now, scroll down to the "Relationship" box and hit the "Edit" icon on the right.


7. Manage Your Privacy

Now click the globe icon to being up your privacy options.

Select "Only me" and change your relationship status view the drop-down menu.

Once you hit "Save," your relationship will be "cancelled" (Facebook's choice of wording) and no news alert will be flashed to your friend's news feeds.



8. After the Event

If you did accidentally broadcast your new single status to the world, there is a way to remove it from your Timeline (and your friend's news feeds) after the event.

Click on your "Activity log" on the right-hand side of your profile page directly beneath your cover photo.



9. Hidden From Your Timeline

You should see your relationship status change in your chronological log.

Click on the circle to the right of the status and select "Hidden from Timeline".

In addition to hiding it from your profile, this will also mean the update disappears from your friend's News Feeds.


10. Have Your Say

So, do you happily broadcast the status of your love-life to all your Facebook friends? Or do you prefer to keep such things private?

Have your say about Facebook relationship status updates in the comments below.


Source: Mashable

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