Facebook Relationship Status

So turns out that being in a relationship lends itself to blog topics also. We're kind of out of the "50 bad dates" theme but still relevent to love life difficulties so I'm gonna go with it.

Alright, so I'm dating this guy who I really like, and things have been going great for a solid month which is longer than anything I've had in the past 2 years almost. He's been awesome and laid back about me meeting up with friends from high school/college for drinks, having girls nights, being out of town, etc. so I know he's not super jealous or clingy, and that's one of the things I like the most about him. I noticed a couple days ago that he removed the "Single" from his relationship status on facebook which I thought was cool cuz I personally don't like having any kind of relationship status up there. But then last night he started joking around about waiting for his relationship request from me. And I'm like "well you can just keep waiting cuz it's never gonna happen". We kinda joked about it a little more last night but then he dropped it so I figured I was off the hook. No such luck, I came into work this morning and my phone started lighting up alerting me I had a new email, which of course was a relationship request from the boy. So now I have no idea what to do, and I've been staring at this request for about 3 hours just trying to ignore it. Let me lay out both our arguments and then PLEASE someone give me some advice here!

His side:
1) He said it wouldn't be a big deal except for the fact that I'm so unwilling to say we're in a relationship, and that kind of bothers him.
2) We don't have any pics of us together on FB, and we aren't saying we're in a relationship, so his friends are giving him crap about where we stand (I think that was the gist of what he was saying).

My side:
1) I have NEVER had any kind of relationship status, single or otherwise, because I just think it's dorky and until I'm engaged I don't want to deal with the "oh you're in a relationship!" or "oh no, what happened? you're single again" comments from people I don't really keep in touch with.
2) I have told every boyfriend I've had since the birth of facebook that I refuse to put a status up there. I have actually hit the "reject relationship" button before to a guy I'd been with for 4 months. I'm sure most don't care, but I'd feel bad for a couple that all of a sudden now I'm willing to do it.
3) I'm pretty crazy about this guy, and in no way trying to hide the fact that we're dating but we went from nothing to serious in a month and before him I'd been dating a few people and adamently telling them I just wanted to date and was firmly against having an actual boyfriend. So now I feel bad and hypocritical to all of a sudden be in a relationship. I don't really wanna rub it in their faces via facebook, when we're still friends but haven't talked about the fact that I'm really seeing someone now.
4) I'm kind of afraid of the guys at work cuz everytime I'm in a relationship they either make fun of me or the guy so much that I end up not wanting to be in the relationship anymore and I really don't want them to ruin this one!


Okay friends, so help me out here. I really like this guy so should I just suck it up and say we're in a relationship? Or should I press ths issue and try to convince him the less is more approach on facebook is better? Help!