Facebook is our generation’s way to get attention and getting the word out.

A casual status update about the success of the weekend is one thing, but verbally bitch slapping the guy who dumped you via facebook is a complete other.

If you’re having a bad day, tell your mom. It is not necessary to log in and tell cyberspace about it with a well-chosen and inevitably misspelled and misinterpreted Paramore quote. It has been more important to read who clicked “attending” to a party invite than the actual event, or better yet we can now be semi-mysterious and click “maybe”.

Thank you Facebook, for letting me keep my options open and further carry my girl mind games to the Internet. Now nobody will know if their party is cool enough for me to attend until the day of.

If your Facebook status didn’t get your point across to the boy who “should have said no,” you can also give him a visual reminder of your wrath. There are tactful and subtle bumper stickers that you can stick right to Romeo’s profile. That should slow his game with all the younger girls Facebook stalking him.

Facebook has clearly altered the way we deal with the end of relationships, but it has also altered the way we start them. The old fashioned game of ’20 questions’ is now obsolete. I knew my boyfriend’s ‘favorites’ just from his profile! No communication needed.

If you are one of those old fashioned members of the tech world who liked IM back in middle school, Facebook has catered to your lack of social skills and love of sitting alone on the computer: the chat option. Once you have finally sealed the deal of your online love affair, make it official; be sure to put it on Facebook.

Remember, what really matters to you, should be publicly displayed online, especially if “it’s complicated.”