Facebook Statuses Are The New PDA
While public displays of affection aren't exactly a new thing, an increasing trend is the use of status updates to perform such acts.
While public displays of affection aren’t exactly a new thing, an increasing trend is the use of status updates to perform such acts.
“My wife is the cutest when she’s cranky”, reads one status update. Further down the feed is another status update from a guy about how despite looking tired and thirsty, his wife is probably her most attractive right now, to which all the guy’s female friends coo. Facebook statuses, at least among a large portion of my friends, have become a platform for public displays of affection and it appears to be going viral.
When users first join Facebook they calibrate themselves to the social norms on the site.
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