relationship-status

 relationship status  is a profile feature popularized by MySpace and Facebook silos that allows users to indicate on whether they are in a (presumably romantic) relationship and optionally with who.

Martijn van der Ven
As part of his “Facebook should not contain more information about me than my own homepage” plan, added his relationship status to his h-card on http://vanderven.se/martijn/ during IndieWebSummit 2017 (2017-06-25).

The data is marked up as a  property on the microformats object.

Silo Examples
More example likely available on http://microformats.org/wiki/relationship-status

Facebook
Facebook has a relationship status feature that has gone through several iterations, and was notable for their addition of "It's complicated".

MySpace
When MySpace still had social profiles, it had at least the ability to indicate whether not you were in a relationship.

Brainstorming
How should we markup our "relationship status" in our bios? For example,

Shane Becker is in a relationship with Anneke Hiatt.

I'm thinking something like this:


 * Shane Becker : .h-card.p-name[rel-me]
 * "in a relationship" : .p-relationship-status
 * Anneke Hiatt : .h-card.p-name[rel-sweetheart]

Is there already research around this? Is there already a proposed or defined spec?

(Shane Becker, 2013-07-30T14:55-0700)

Somehow, I missed the microformats wiki-page about this: microformats.org/wiki/relationship-status

(Sb)

Articles

 * 2010-12-02 Of Dating Preferences, Public Profiles, and Formats For Federating It All