When she flaunts it all on social media

Gone are days when we used to send letters through the post office or had pen pals. Today, through social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Viber, people have not only made SMS irrelevant but have shown the world that there are million ways to borderless messaging.
Through these platforms, people show off ideal lifestyles and get back at purported haters.

Show off
And that is how the gadgets have taken over relationships; from when people start dating, social media platforms will give you a chance to update your profile with a ‘so and so is in a relationship with...’.
At first, it was not one of the things that many men some in relationships, would care less whether they updated or not.
But then the other party started being keen. For instance, Joe Kiggundu, a city accountant, says he knew his girlfriend took social media serious after dating for almost six months.

“We had gone on a date and she asked why my profile still said I was single!”
He says his profile had never crossed his mind as one of the things that needed an update but he would soon learn that the longer he took without updating it, the more she thought the relationship was not serious.

Tight marking
And of course, there are many stories of men that have confessed that women stopped talking to them the day they jokingly updated their relationship status, much as some were indeed in relationships, others did it for the fun.
Which probably explains why the continuous sharing of couples updates online gets both lovers involved at different measures.
The men most of the time, such updates kill their game, while for the girls, these things are for purposes of marking territories.

Back off
Mukisa (not real name) faced it rough. He had a baby outside marriage and he seemingly made peace with his wife.
But one day she demanded his Facebook passwords, being in her bad books at the time, he obliged. She flooded his timeline with pictures of the family, changed his profile picture to hers and at times, she would share random pictures of herself with captions such as; “My World.”
“She was aware my girlfriends were watching my online space and these posts were directly telling them to back off.”

Verdict
Much as many men could have a problem with it, some are willing to accept measures of it. Derekford Mugumisa, a media personality, notes that it all depends on what is shared because some things are private and personal, though he does not find the idea wrong.