NEW YORK -- Facebook has added a key feature, already popular to millions of users, that should make the LGBT community say 'Finally!'
The media giant has added civil unions and domestic partnerships to the list of relationships that its users can pick from to best describe their romantic status.
The world's largest online social network continues to give its users the option to list themselves as single, married, in an open relationship or "it's complicated," among others.
The option for civil unions or domestic partnerships is currently only available to Facebook users in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France and Australia, says the nonprofit Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which has been among the groups working with Facebook to add the options.
“When millions of Facebook users see these relationship status options, they gain a greater understanding of the legal inequalities faced by loving and committed same-sex couples in so many states today," GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios told Mashable.
However, not everyone is welcoming the change. According to Mashable.com, advocates of gay marriage disdain the "separate but unequal" titles, and many homosexual couples prefer to define themselves as married, whether legally recognized by their state or not. Read more at mashable.com
(The Associated Press contributed to this article.)
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