Facebook divorces and breakups are going to gain a lot more attention in the future. The social networking giant just relaunched users’ relationships statuses. No longer are they merely a status, such as married, in a relationship with, or engaged, between one user and another. Each relationship now has its own page, including any posts, events and photos in which both partners are tagged. The relationship page can be found by accessing Facebook.com/us whether the users want it or not, and it’s impossible to delete it unless the “relationship” is ended.

Facebook added the relationship pages last week at the same time it revamped its friendship pages to appear more like its Timeline profiles. While some are excited about the oh so cute couples pages, others are nauseated at the sappiness of it all.

Emma Barnett, women’s editor at The Telegraph, recently wrote that although she enjoys being able to share information on Facebook, she does not want to have a shared couples Facebook profile with her husband. In fact, she says she and her husband have discussed “breaking up” on Facebook due to her spouse’s discomfort with having such personal information on a third-party Web site with its ever-changing privacy settings, but have not done so only because there is no way to “end a ‘listed relationship’ quietly on Facebook.” After having the Facebook couples page thrust upon them, they are reconsidering.

“I didn’t receive a notification from Facebook informing me that their squat team in Palo Alto, Calif., had taken the liberty of creating me a joint profile with my husband,” she wrote. “Mr. Zuckerberg: by all means keep giving people new tools—as you did when you created Facebook. But when you start doing things for us—this experience is anything but social or remotely positive.”

Blogger Jennifer Wright recently wrote the new pages make her “want to vomit,” not only because of the uber-cuteness of the combined couples’ profiles, but because of the reduced sense of individual identity.

“You’re perfectly capable of sharing pictures of yourself and your partner without needing to combine your entire identities on one page,” Wright wrote. “I also don’t want a record of my relationship compiled and recorded by Facebook executives.”

Not all opinions have been negative, however. Blogger Just McLachlan is celebrating the new pages.

“There’s nothing creepy here,” he wrote. “It’s no different, really, than typing your name into Google and seeing your face and other personal details from social networks mashed up in a sidebar.”

Although Facebook users are stuck with the “Us” profiles unless they want to “break up” on the site, they can edit the information that appears on the couples pages.

“You cannot deactivate the pages, but you can control what you share on Facebook using the privacy settings for each post,” wrote Facebook’s Jessie Baker in an email to CNN. “The friendship page respects the privacy setting of each post. This means the person viewing the friendship page may see each post elsewhere on Facebook, like on either friend’s timeline or in news feed. You can curate your friendship page by hiding stories you do not want to appear.”

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