facebook relationships

david just blogged about the facebook relationship status thing, which made me think:

ok, so it's pretty easy (in the real world) to know whether one is married but not necessarily so easy to tell when one has gone from "been out a few times" to "dating." facebook now either helps or complicates this -- i'm not sure which.

one could set the status to "in a relationship" with "[whoever]" -- then there will be that awkward (awaiting confirmation) phase -- then the response! or lack thereof.

this would be more reliable than having your best friend call his best friend to ask.