[header] How to avoid being in a facebook relationship with your boyfriend [title] Be up front with your boyfriend. [step] Explain why you don't want your relationship to be known online. Tell him that you want it to be kept offline and personal, not something that gets splashed about for everyone to treat as " their business ". 
[title] Explain how keeping your love life offline will be better for the relationship. [step] Good reasons include : [substeps] Less pressure no unwanted curiosity no blackmail possibilities no attempts to break up the two of you publicly people won't know when or if you break up unless you choose to tell them.