How can you tell if a couple is going out? Holding hands? Check. Gazing into each others eyes? Check. When it comes to the online world, with social clients such as Facebook and Myspace, many girls use it as a poster board to shout out to the world "I HAVE A BOYFRIEND".
You've seen the Facebook status that says "Married to so-and-so" and their interests include
Being with so-and-so, kissing so-and-so and you know what with so-and-so! Sometimes we might comment too much on our significant others' profile, which is something I got called out on.
"Are you writing on my page a lot on purpose to show girls that you're with me?"
See, I'm in a complicated situation. But in no way was I trying to mark my territory! I was just trying to leave some funny comments on his Facebook. I'm not one to show PIA: Public Internet Displays of Affection. To him, it seemed like I was trying to mark my territory.
Do you mark your territory on your guy? If so, how does he feel about it?
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in all fairness, maybe some people are that saccharine about their significant others. i don't think it's always to say, "hands off," but it's still eye roll-worthy. as far as territory-marking goes... no, that's for the insecure.
Haha, "Do you mark your territory on your guy?"
Awesome.
LOL! PIDA! that's so funny. :)
yes i do mark my territory, especially when i feel threatened, ex: seeing a girl eyeing my boy while we're hanging out, seeing a girl commenting flirtishly on facebook, making sure our profile pictures were of us together, etc.
i did it deliberately. is that terrible? i only wanted to scare them away, honestly!
ah well. we did break up. he was too popular for his own good.
@MissPixieGlitter@xanga - :( sad face. it happens when someone gets a new SO.
Well, you know, I just lift the ole leg up and start peeing ...
Haa, not really. I don't "mark my territory." However, I did walk around school one day unaware that I had a sign on my back that read "PLEASE RETURN TO _____ ______" courtesy of my ex-bf. Yeah -_-
I'm not a fan of PDAs [public displays of affection], but a FB relationship status is suitable.
Hahaha, we're not that crazy and leave comments and such. We do have pictures up, and of course, our marital status is as such. So yeah, that's as far as I'll go online. And sometimes I'll mention him in a blog or two I write.
I know A LOT of girls who Pee on "their" men.
I made friends with a guy last year at work. We became like brother and sister, but everyone thought we were dating or were going to. Once this other girl found out she confronted me about it and asked me if I liked this guy. I said no we are just friends. She then proceeded to tell EVERYONE she had the hugest crush on him but not to tell anyone.....
I work with high schoolers. EVERYONE found out. She told my bff who sort of had a crush on him as well that she liked him, as if to mark her territory and "pee on him" so that no one else would go after him. Too bad she's super nasty and he just avoided her and hooked up with someone else.
Once pee'd on, girls should know to back off. But some girls take the peeing a little too far.
No. I trust him, so there's no need. He makes it clear to anyone who needs to know that we are together.
We do have our fbook relationship status as "in a relationship," but we only did that 6 months ago (after 3 years of dating!)
I only do it if I feel it needs to be done (i.e. a girl's getting a little too flirty with my guy...I get especially angry if I know that they know that my bf is taken. That's just disrespectful). I do leave comments on my guy's facebook and MySpace but it's not excessive and usually to make a joke (or say that I miss him since we're sort of LDR).
I think it's fine for a girl to "mark her territory" when the situation calls for such action, so long as she doesn't go all crazy or anything.
I'm not sure if I do. When we're out in public we don't hold hands much. He usually puts his arm around my shoulder or holds my purse. & sometimes I just hold on to his back pocket. Is that marking territory?
Lol. No, I don't. Because there's no need to. i put up the "in a relationship" thing and a couple pictures here and there but nothing shouting out "HEY THIS IS MY BOYFRIEND BACK OFF." The only thing marked on him is the banner on his phone saying, "<3KH12! =] " which states he hearts KH(Cambodia's abbreviation) cos i'm cambodian, 12 for the date he asked me to be his girlfriend and a smiley face. on my phone is says "<3VN12! =]" VN being for Vietnam. lol. weird but thats our thing for each other. =]
Still working on the boyfriend part...
eh? not really. But I guess kinda in a way. Seeing how the only pictures of him on fb are the ones I have of him. xD So, lots of tagging from me.
I don't comment him excessively and neither of us have our relationship status up. So we're not "connected" in any way.
So...iono. I think he's the one that might prefer PIAs (=O new word!)
We have our relationship statuses posted on all social networking sites... And his profile picture on myspace is a picture of both of us (courteousy of me putting it up, he said it was ok, and his old one was REALLY old... besides, he said he liked it).
Idk, if I ever feel threatened by a girl, I ask my boyfriend about it up front and talk to him about it. But pretty much everyone knows he has a girlfriend... I've met almost all his friends and coworkers and family.
Lol, no I don't do it, we leave comments on each others pages sometimes but nothing too much.
I have seen pages where couples have what seems like whole conversations through comments instead of private messages and wonder if they are making sure that everyone knows about them when they do that. When they say things that are best left for a private message, I do think the person is marking their territory, much the same way couple who are too handsy in public do.
haha that's pretty funny because sometimes i use myspace and facebook to mark my territory with my boyfriend. he hardly cares though because i dont do it that often.
waste of time. plus it makes the territory marker look a little silly.Â
I don't think I do. He has a myspace, but I don't really comment him much cause I'm rarely ever even on anyway. The closest thing to I've really done is put my name spelled backwards on his phone, but only because he did that to me when we were dating and I've left it there since, so I guess he was "marking his territory"? haha!
I don't.. I think at times he wants a girl that does.. hmm.. :/
you mean piss on mah man or let him cum in mah ass? cuz i do all dat shit mate!
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@TheScaleDiaries@xanga - oohmygoosh i know what you mean! it is totally disrespectful! ugh, i found flirtatious comments from my boyfriend and this girl talking through fb or myspace or his texts messages i was so pissed. =( but i never thought my anger was justified until my friend said that it was disrespectful. My bf doesn't think anything of it, probably thinks of it as just being really nice.
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I tried to mark my territory. I mean yes, we have our relationship status revealed on facebook and myspace. But he's not friends with his ex girlfriend, whom i really loathe. On his myspace he's friends with her but he hardly uses it, but I go on it occasionally. I wrote a passionate long message for everyone to see. He put up a picture of us together as his default, and i uploaded a lot of pictures of us on my myspace, *which i hardly ever use* just so i could tag him.
I'm more of the girl that wants her boyfriend to announce that he has a girlfriend.
Like on myspace you can write bulletins, and usually people put up surveys they filled out.
I wanted him to do one that mentions something about me!
Because he's not the type of person to go to people or tell friends that he has a gf now.
He figures that his friends will know once it was put on facebook. But what about the friends that aren't his friends on facebook?? Example: his ex gf!
I forget why, but in most cases on facebook, couples who are really "in love" with each other, or figure they'll be together for a really long time or something, put their status as "engaged" or "married" ------ I tried to do this once. With my current boyfriend. I did it, and he freaked out. Or at least, he got really angry that I changed it. Which made me angry, because I didn't think it was a big deal at all, since my friends do that all the time. *he's not used to it* Also, he only noticed it when his "best" gal friend told him through a text, and she said "engaged? congrats on the engagement??" like it was some fucking stupid shit. Made her come off as a bitch. And she also mentioned, "Maybe she's marking her territory" oh yeah i was! lol I forget why though....
Also, I added a playlist of music on his myspace, one of them being "crazy possessive" lol just to throw some girls out of the way, because i will f*ck them up.... while as in the other songs are about love toward that special someone, aka me or him. =)
i try not to write on his fb too much but he never writes on mine! nothing passionate or lovey dovey. it's annoying. especially when we are together, he doesn't like PDA so naturally he wouldn't like PIDA. But i'm all for everything. =( so it doesn't really go in my favor. He gets annoyed or irritated... but i don't like the idea of girls flirting with my guy. or even have a crush on him.
Holy crap.
I didn't take much notice of this kind of behavior until now.
Goodness, where have I been? LOL
But I guess I would mind if I was being "marked as territory," so with the assumption that any guy I date would mind as well, I'd probably make a conscious effort not to do so.