Does Facebook Formalize your Life?

Recently, I have found that Facebook authenticates or formalizes something about you (or "makes it official"). Whether it's changing a relationship status, or adding education or work, putting something in there makes an automatic announcement to the world. I recently updated my profile and found it to be a rather serious matter to go in there and change things up. Quite nerve wrecking actually. It's like not only changing your biography, but doing so in a public manner and in real-time. Quite incredible that filling in a virtual, intangible blank that exists in some computer in the ether has that effect. Do you find a similar "Facebook-makes-it-official" effect?