Domestic Partnership & Civil Union- New Facebook Status

I was on someone’s Facebook Profile and it under relationship status it said “in a domestic partnership with” . Now I didn’t remember seeing this option in my profile so I checked and the option still isn’t available here in Thailand thank god. What a bunch of wanking bullshit. This is important??? Isn’t “in a relationship with” enough? Must we with exact political correctness describe every aspect of our existence on something as trivial as Facebook? WTF this is beyond stupid mostly I don’t fill that crap out anyway. If someone wants to know they can ask me . I only put my relationship status to married because one of my daughter’s freaked out and asked if me and my wife were “doing ok?”. Domestic partnership my ass. Stupid Facebook how about doing something useful and figuring out a way to keep my newsfeed from being bombed with Farmville updates or keep Godvine from posting on my wall? What a bunch of tools.

Here is some more about it in a article I found on Huffington Post.

Facebook has added two new relationship status options users can include in their online profiles: “in a civil union” and “in a domestic partnership.”

The new fields are being rolled out in the U.S. and several other countries, including Canada, France, the U.K., and Australia, starting today.

“This has been a highly requested feature from users,” said Facebook’s Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications. “We want to provide options for people to genuinely and authentically reflect their relationships on Facebook.”

Among other information included on their Facebook profiles, such as their alma mater and favorite books, users also have the option to characterize their relationships. Previously, the set of options included: single, in a relationship, married, engaged, it’s complicated, in an open relationship, widowed, separated, and divorced.

The changes were made in consultation with Facebook’s Network of Support, a group that includes LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, and the Human Rights Campaign.

“As LGBT people face a patchwork of relationship recognition laws, this gives people more tools to adequately describe their relationship,” said Michael Cole-Schwartz, spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign. “Facebook has been a company that has tried to be inclusive of the LGBT community and this just one sign of it.”

Richard Socarides, president of Equality Matters and former gay rights advisor to president Bill Clinton, echoed Cole-Schwartz’s praise.  Read more at Huffington Post