How do you break up on Instagram?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The time has come, everyone. Summer is basically here, and Why’d You Push That Button is wrapping season two just in time for us to get our butts to the beach. But before we do, we have an episode for you. It’s about relationships, Facebook statuses, Instagram posts, and breakups. I would say this is our “personal” episode. We came to talk about whether the Facebook relationship status matters anymore, and we get some answers. Definitely. First we talk to Nayomi Reghay, The Daily Dots’ advice columnist, about whether caring about being official on Facebook or Instagram is dumb. She also gives us advice, which I appreciated. Then we talk to one of Kaitlyn’s sister’s friends, Megan, who brings us back down to earth and explains what the youth think of relationship statuses. Finally, we chat with Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber of the podcast Who? Weekly about how celebrities handle becoming official with a new boo. With press releases, magazine covers, paparazzi photos, Instagram, Facebook, and the Notes app at their disposal, how do they announce a new relationship? More crucially, how do they break up? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How do you post about a new relationship online?
0:03.0	So Facebook doesn't have this anymore, but it used to be able to let you put relationship statuses with people you used to go out with.
0:10.0	So you can add like month and year that you guys dated.
0:13.0	Once after I left to college, an ex of mine tried to add me as formerly in a relationship between so and so years.
0:20.0	And I'm like, why would anyone want to do that?
0:22.6	Because, like, first of all, why would I want to advertise it?
0:25.2	And two, who does that help?
0:26.6	That is really weird to have a resume of everyone you've ever dated on the internet.
0:30.0	Hello, welcome to Why'd You Push That Button, a show where Caitlin Tiffany
0:34.5	and Ashley Carmen, that's me, talk about all the decisions we're forced to make with technology.
0:42.7	Oh, man. Today we're talking about a really juicy topic. You know we love when episodes get gossipy.
0:48.9	And we love one star girl talk about quote unquote boys. And this is our season finale also.
0:57.1	So we had to go out with the goss, the hot goss.
1:00.8	Yeah, we're playing to our strengths here.
1:02.8	Totally, totally.
1:03.9	I'm excited about this episode.
1:05.9	I am too.
1:06.5	I know for a fact that it's going to get bleak, which we also love.
1:10.8	Yeah, there's a lot of news to deliver in this episode.
1:14.2	Oh, man.
1:15.1	So, Caitlin, what are we talking about today?
1:16.6	Today we are talking about the idea of being Instagram official, which, if you haven't heard of, is essentially the same thing as Facebook official, which was the dominant form of announcing a relationship for several years.
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