Changing "Interested in" status on Facebook

I changed mine in July, and no one has noticed it yet. It all depends on if it will say something for example: "Person A has changed their Interested In" or not. I made mine not have that notification on my page, but you can choose to have it on yours. Best of luck to you.

 

A big announcement on everyone's Wall will NOT happen.

 

I changed my wallpaper at the same time as changing my status. Some people noticed right away. Others are pretending not to notice.

 

I changed mine and made sure to set my profile to NOT broadcast any changes I make. hen I came out to everyone in person. The post that made it "facebook official" was either when I started my relationship or posted about my grandma's extremely positive response. I say share good responses you get, especially heartwarming family ones. Can't go wrong with grandma's support

 

Changed mine last night. I've decided I'm not ready to tell people I'm gay, but I'm not going to lie about it either.

 

My mom woudlnt want me to change it for "safety" reasons -_-

 

Wow, that takes some guts
well done and hope all goes well

 

I'm honestly startled by your bravery guys... it's huge what you all did,not easy to do,I've narrowed my fb friends to less that 200 and I still don't think I could do it,when I decide to come out entirely of course.... It's just too difficult I could easily see me showing sth like that only when i get married and the spouse is a man not a woman
Wow...just respect from me....

 

The thing is, almost nobody notices. You might as well change your facebook "like" to "monkeys" or "Yetis" or something, and nobody will bat an eye. I've had friends who even forgot I was LGBT until I reminded them. One of them is a lesbian.

 

Exactly why Facebook is a poor resource to come out on. You might as well come out to your toaster. :/

 

One thing to note: if people are curious and look it up, then they'll find out. That happened to me recently after I had changed my Interested In section, and there was no announcement or anything. Also, if you meet someone new and they add you or look you up on Facebook, there's a good chance that the first thing they'll do is check your About section and so they'd find out. It's not entirely useless and it has its uses. As for coming out and making it a post/announcement... that's a bit different.

 

coming out on facebook, isn't actually always bad...it was fine, with me.

everyone found out through newsfeed.

it usually depends on the people, your friends with ...and how often they get on or notice thing but to say, its a poor source...is questionable because, it usually just depends

 

I want to change mine... It no longer has an interested in bit, I got rid of interested in men. Does it sound really pathetic that I'm scared of changing it? It's only a bloody networking site :lol:

 

After I had come out in person to those who I cared about deeply, I changed my "interested in" to men only and liked a bunch of LGBT news and support pages. Either my friends looked at my profile because:

I had reactivated it after 5 years of not having a FB
It had stated that I changed my preferences
They saw that I had gone off and like 3-4 LGBT pages

So, congrats and just remember there isn't "the way" to come out, and everyone does it differently.

 

Yeah, most people don't notice unless they bother to look. Having said that, one friend of mine did notice about a year and a half after it was put up on there.