The Observer’s Erin McGinn has a hilarious column in today’s paper about relationship drama on Facebook. Excerpt:

[S]etting your [relationship] status to “it’s complicated” … can mean anything from an on-again, off-again couple, to a regular hook-up from the Backer. In the worst-case scenario (or best, depending on your view), this setting is used in relationship warfare between a couple. …

Sometimes, Facebook relationship statuses are the best way to find out whether that drunken confession of love will still stand true in the sober light of day. “Megan” and “Mike” might have made out at the Feve, but is that going to translate into an actual status (”it’s complicated,” perhaps)?

It could just end up as a poke. …

Whole Facebook groups are devoted to determining how pokes should be used and who should actually get poked. Is it a friendly gesture? Is it indicative of a non-duLac approved desire of intimacy? Your idea of poking and the viewpoint of the person who you are poking (or who poked you) might not be the same, and that could lead to a potentially complicated situation.

Heh. It’s enough to make a 25-year-old married guy, less than four years out of college, feel like a veritable old geezer. Crazy kids today and their newfangled Facebook thingy…