Method of publicly displaying a person's relationship status

A method of displaying a user's relationship status, comprising the steps of:

• communicating an image of a user's physical likeness to an electronic computing device;
• selecting, at the electronic computing device, one of a plurality of pre-defined recognizable personal-status identifiers indicative of a personal status of the user;
• substantially encapsulating the image of the user's physical likeness with a border, by the electronic computing device, the border leaving the image of the user's physical likeness substantially unobstructed and having a unique visual perception characteristic corresponding to the selected pre-defined personal-status identifier;
• associating the border with a hyperlink to an Internet domain providing access to the pre-defined personal-status identifier corresponding with the border;
• receiving, from the electronic computing device, the image of the user's physical likeness with the border at a social network, the social network having a social network server communicatively coupled over a network with the electronic computing device;
• and
• displaying the image of the user's physical likeness with the border to users on the social network.

A computer readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor for performing a method for displaying a user's relationship status, the method comprising:

• accessing a user-identifying image;
• selecting from a plurality of pre-defined recognizable personal-status identifiers at least one personal-status identifier indicative of a personal status of the user;
• selecting from a plurality of pre-defined recognizable secondary personal-status identifiers at least one secondary personal-status identifier indicative of a personal status of the user;
• at least partially surrounding the user-identifying image with a frame-like image, the frame-like image having a unique visual perception characteristic corresponding to the selected at least one personal-status identifier indicative of a personal status of the user, having another unique visual perception characteristic corresponding to the selected at least one secondary personal-status identifier indicative of a personal status of the user, and leaving the user-identifying image substantially unobstructed;
• and
• uploading the user-identifying image with the frame-like image to at least two different social networks so that the image is visually accessible to users on the at least two different social networks.