What's your Status?

I was just on one of those social networking sites, and noticed that one of the information fields was 'social status'..
Now, looking at this, one might wonder what exactly a social status is.
I suppose anything that makes us different or groups us into a certain category in society is a social status.
Blue collar, white collar. Working class, middle class. School leaver, University graduate.
All of these 'statuses' are different to each other. All of them hold categories where one is seen as being 'better' than the other.

Naturally, on one of these sites, one would assume that the social status was in reference to the person's employment.

Wrong. This referred to whether or not the person was in a relationship.

Their status in society was determined by whether or not they have someone that they find mutually attractive enough to keep around.

Seriously, what kind of a society is it when your status in it, the thing that ranks you, segregates you, marks you, is something so trivial and inane?

Ridiculous, really.