Confirming My Spouse

After resisting the lure of Facebook for months, Andrea has finally succumbed, and is now hooked.

This resulting e-mail sounded so sinister when it arrived in my inbox:

Andrea says that you two are married on Facebook. We need you to confirm that you are, in fact, married to Andrea.

To confirm this relationship request, follow the link below.

To put the Facebook people's minds at ease, I confirmed. (Even though it's not at all true that we were "married on Facebook." We were married in a church.)

It was all so official, it felt like we should renew our vows or something. Or maybe couples should start putting it in their vows to begin with, to save a step: "to have and to hold, to Add as a Friend on Facebook ..."