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"  Back in my freewheeling coupled-up-but-not-yet-engaged days (as in, a little less than a year ago), I daydreamed of the moment that I could change my Facebook status from &amp;quot;In a Relationship&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Engaged.&amp;quot; I imagined that the question would be popped and I would be compelled to grab my phone and make things Facebook official, as it were. However, when my guy proposed in Belize, at 6 a.m., just before we were set to go scuba diving, logging onto social media to share the news wasn&amp;#039;t an option. And I ended up being more than okay with that. In fact, we didn&amp;#039;t end up changing our status until nearly two weeks after we became affianced. It just didn&amp;#039;t matter to me as much as I&amp;#039;d expected.  But, when I read survey results released by wedding social network site WeClickd.com that seven out of ten women update their Facebook relationship status within 24 hours of getting married, I totally understood the compulsion. Because, in those 24 hours after being engaged, I was dying to tell the world (as in, my Facebook friends). But, because we were in the aforementioned foreign country, not only was I unable to use my phone, I also couldn&amp;#039;t wear my ring. (We were warned not to wear of value in public.) Soon, the desire to share-share-share subsided into just enjoying the fact that my guy and I had a pretty amazing secret.  Not doing the Facebook update taught me how nice it was to be truly disconnected and live in the moment. In fact, waiting to announce the news actually made me even more excited to share it with the people who mattered most when we got home.  While I certainly don&amp;#039;t judge the majority of women who update their Facebook status right away, I don&amp;#039;t want to be one of them. Actually, I don&amp;#039;t want to even think about Facebook on my wedding day at all\u2014not while I&amp;#039;m saying my vows, not while I&amp;#039;m getting down on the dance floor, and certainly not when I wake up to my husband (!!!) in our bridal suite the next morning. (Plus, anyone I would care to tell about my getting married would likely already know-slash-have-witnessed it.) If there is every a time to unplug, IMHO, it&amp;#039;s on your wedding day.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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