# Not putting sexual orientation on Facebook, MySpace etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 24, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-putting-sexual-orientation-on-facebook-myspace-etc/446658 "2008-04-24T10:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-putting-sexual-orientation-on-facebook-myspace-etc/446658/41 "2008-04-25T08:10:27Z")
I don’t list that I’m straight because it seems heterosexist to do so just so people don’t think I’m gay, and if I’m in a positive situation with a girl she’s going to know I’m interested from my actions, not from my Facebook. Also, I don’t want people to feel betrayed if I decide to fuck a dude. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-putting-sexual-orientation-on-facebook-myspace-etc/446658/42 "2008-05-06T08:56:39Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Machine] I did it twice so far. Once for this same reason although there wasn’t a group for us (there’s probably only a couple dozen worldwide and this guy was also Canadian and virtually the same age). The other time was when our own \*\*Idle Thoughts \*\* added those on the SDMB groups. Regarding the OP, I answer all the profile questions even though since I’m married it’s irrelevant as well. Edit: I just checked it looks like I didn’t answer the “Interested In” I answered Looking For: Friendships, Networking and noted Married. So as a far as anybody else is concerned if it wasn’t for the fact I live in Texas I could be straight or gay. [/QUOTE] Wow, I feel flattered. 🙂 Me, I have mine up, course a lot of people still think I’m gay simply because I buy both sexes (I.E. Everyone on my friends list) in a lot of the friend buying applications. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-putting-sexual-orientation-on-facebook-myspace-etc/446658/43 "2008-05-06T11:55:56Z")
The level of candor that I employ in my blog on Myspace probably precludes my attractiveness to any gender, but the outlet is provieds to express my self-loathing and misanthropy is more important than the false hope of online dating. At first I didn’t check anything, but then I decided it would be more forthcoming of me to appear as a bitter old straight white guy than a scolding, past his sell-by date queer. ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-putting-sexual-orientation-on-facebook-myspace-etc/446658/44 "2008-05-06T22:23:40Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] Question: is using Facebook as a place to meet new people a recent trend, or is it something that’s been going on for awhile but that I just haven’t noticed? I feel like when it was restricted to students there was less of that stuff going on, but maybe I just wasn’t paying attention. My Facebook friends are mostly RL friends. The only exceptions are Dopers. [/QUOTE] This is a really good question. I don’t think I’ve EVER been friend requested by someone I didn’t already know from somewhere in my real life, whereas when I had an active MySpace profile, I got multiple requests every day from people I had no idea about. I wonder if it’s a regional thing, too. I’ve never heard of it happening to any of my friends in Finland, either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-putting-sexual-orientation-on-facebook-myspace-etc/446658.md?page=2)