LGBTQ Agenda: Polyamory group asks Facebook for more relationship status choices
If you've ever posted your relationship status on Facebook, and you're happily involved with that one great person you want to spend your life with, you may not have noticed an aspect of the social networking site's relationship status offerings: they're all geared toward dyadic relationships or, rather, relationships involving just two people.
If you have noticed, and you're one of the 5% or so of people involved in romantic relationships with more than one other person, you may very well have just rolled your eyes and checked the "open relationship" or "it's complicated" box and called it a day.One group is attempting to change that because, as it said in a letter released June 16 to Tom Alison, Meta's head of the Facebook app, "this restriction perpetuates the erasure and marginalization of non-monogamous relationships; at worst, it harms non-monogamous users by perpetuating social stigmas around the validity and authenticity of their relationships." (Meta Platforms Inc.
is the new name of the company formerly known as Facebook.)That letter, organized by Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy and signed by 11 polyamory activists representing as many organizations committed to enfranchising polyamorous relationships, asks Alison to revamp the app's selection of relationship types to include polyamory.
At present, Facebook users have 11 options to choose from, ranging from single to widowed seemingly with the assumption that all those relationship permutations are with only one other person. "Unfortunately, the design of the 'relationship status' feature prevents many users from indicating the connections most important to them," the letter states. "By restricting users to one relationship status (and one.
