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6 Digital Ways to Leave Your Lover

Breaking up via text or email? That's so outdated.

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(Newser) – If couples are having fewer public fights nowadays, it might be because they're busy liveblogging their entire breakup on Twitter, NPR reports. Beyond dumping the dude in 140 characters, here are six other ultra-modern ways to become uncoupled:

  1. Watch "The Break-Up Poem" on LiveVideo.com for tips on how to say "It's over" in sonnet form.
  2. Take an online quiz to test whether your relationship is over—together.

  1. Your newly single Facebook status will speak volumes.
  2. If that didn't get the message across, send an "I don't love you" e-card.
  3. Let someone else say it for you: Send a ringtone like "Song for the Dumped," by Ben Folds Five.
  4. Sever all digital ties—block, un-friend, and de-follow your ex.

Breaking up is going more and more digital.
Breaking up is going more and more digital.   (©simplified complication)
The founders of Twitter probably did not have breakup-chronicling in mind when they designed it.
The founders of Twitter probably did not have breakup-chronicling in mind when they designed it.   (©jurvetson)
Breaking up with someone by texting is so old-school now... unless you're doing a mobile Twitter update or remotely changing your Facebook status.
Breaking up with someone by texting is so old-school now... unless you're doing a mobile Twitter update or remotely changing your Facebook status.   (©ydhsu)
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let me know when u will be gone for a few hours tomorrow and I will collect my things. i don't feel much like seeing u. - a tweet by a recently dumped Twitter user

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Mad
Feb 14, 09 12:07 PM CST
How low class. I would hope I would never develop a relationship with a gal who was so completely without honor. Reply
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Feb 14, 09 2:09 PM CST
Damn Right....
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Feb 15, 09 12:30 AM CST
C'mon, if your going to end it, end it in person. Reply
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