Tag: BREAKUP

For those of you that have never had the pleasure of "changing" your Facebook relationship status, here's what it's like: random people "like" your misfortune, friends all comment "Wha!?" and suddenly the inbox is filled with inquiries and messages from your high school lab partner asking if you are okay. Putting relationship statuses on Facebook is a defining experience, where you can proudly ...

Journalist David McCandless indexed over 10,000 Facebook status updates, and found that breakups peak twice a year: once just before spring break (to make you feel less guilty about all that drunken anonymous sex) and just before Christmas (to save cash on gifts). McCandless also found that most breakups happen on a Monday. The worst day of the week just got crappier. ...

The pre-Internet jilted lover was forced to wallow in lonely misery, hoping that friends or family members would listen on the other end of the phone while that spurned, unfortunate soul lamented what went wrong. Now, though, people can overcome their anguish by trumpeting the shortcomings and misdeeds of their exes online for the world to see. And, thankfully so, because break-up stories are ...

Oh Twitter, is there anything you can't ruin? Once, you were just a fun diversion for social-networking addicts who needed another way to stay connected with their virtual friends. But, before long, you were invalidating court cases, ruining job offers, and generally making a mess of things. Now, you've gone and ruined a perfect Hollywood couple. According to Star, supposed friends of the ...

Dumping someone via text message is cruel. Dumping them via Facebook status message, for all your friends to see, is even more cruel. But dumping someone by updating a Wikipedia page that all the world can see, well, that's an entirely different realm of cruelty. Alas, that's exactly what Wikipedia co-founder Jim Wales did to announce the termination of relations with his fling, former Fox News ...

Let this be a lesson to you: Take breaking up a little more seriously and try not to embarrass your soon-to-be ex anywhere that others might see. This was learned the hard way by video blogger Sandra Soroka who ditched her beau via a Facebook status update. The real mistake was posting an image of the status update on Digg, where scorned, geeky, men decided that Sandra had gone too far. Her ...