Engagement season starts around the holidays, when your Facebook feed blew up with giant rings and running mascara. Then another explosion of betrothal hits around Valentine's Day.
Suddenly, everyone from a distant cousin to that kid from study hall switches their status to "engaged."
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Like a binge-marathon of House of Cards, there are a whirlwind of emotions to work through when a Facebook friend announces their engagement. Hold on to your mouse, because here come the brides all dressed in Likes.
But like, fake engaged, right? Like how she calls her best friend a sister?
There's no way an engagement announcement can follow that soon after an alert that he Liked Axe body spray.
Crazier things have happened.
OMG, so happy for you two! Couldn't be a more deserving couple. Is there a double Like button?
Cool. No big. Who isn't announcing their engagement these days for the whole world to see?
Yeah, so she got a big ring. Did she see the size of the cinnamon roll I got this morning?
They met in 2009, so if I meet someone tomorrow my engagement notice could be up by ... 2019?
I totally remember going to the eighth grade dance with him. God, whatever happened to Vitamin C?
Time to download Tinder, the OKCupid app -- and what the hell, let's check out ChristianMingle while we're at it.
With Game of Thrones coming back you really don't have time for dating anyway. Besides, we all know how that wedding turned out.
Molly Horan was an editorial intern at Mashable. She's worked as an editorial fellow at Buzzfeed.com and an editorial intern at Dosomething.org and Crushable.com. Her web writing has also been published on Flavorwire.com, Sparknotes.com, and Nerve.co...More