355: Couple
| Couple |
 Title text: Facebook defines relationships. 'Yeah, we would have broken up last night, but the net connection was down' |
[edit] Explanation
It's hard to know when you are in a relationship in modern times. In olden days you might fancy a girl, and then ask her father if you might court her, and if he granted his permission you would be a couple. Today, that kind of structure and formality is terrifyingly antiquated, as a result we don't have any of the straightforward cues.
This comic suggests that "making it Facebook official", which means asserting the existence of a romantic relationship on Facebook by setting one's status to "In a relationship", has recently become a way to define when you are a couple. Cueball would like to do it, probably after having sex for the first time with his love interest, to get confidence in his relationship and/or show it off to his friends. Because his love interest isn't so sure about that relationship, or doesn't like to formalize it and prefers to enjoy without thinking to much about it, he suggests a compromise: using the "It's complicated" status instead. And he does so with a phrasing very reminiscent of a formal way to propose to marry someone ("Will you be my wife?").
The title text takes it further, suggesting that Facebook has become the only reliable way to know about relationships; even so that without access to Facebook, relationships can't evolve.
[edit] Transcript
- [Cueball and Megan in bed]
- Cueball: So is this it? Are we a couple now?
- Megan: I just don't know. I like this. I just... don't know.
- [silence]
- Cueball: Well will you be my "it's complicated" on facebook?
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