We r so thru! Using the Internet or a cell phone to end that romantic relationship may be somewhat cold-hearted, but more and more people ...
Using the Internet or a cell phone to end that romantic relationship may be somewhat cold-hearted, but more and more people are doing it, a quirky new survey shows.
Of 550 social media users polled by Lab42, a Chicago-based research firm, 33% admitted to have broken off a romance using text messages, email or Facebook.
Even more — 40% of those questioned — said they would have no qualms about using a technological medium to tell a lover to take a hike.
The survey may not have been scientific, but it provided a peek into how the Internet is changing people’s love lives — and making the always painful breakup conversation impersonal and in many ways less messy.
Those questioned in the poll were all over the age of 18. Among the respondents, about 41% were single, 24% were in a relationship and 24% said they were married.
New Yorkers, meanwhile, offered mixed reviews as to whether they would give “likes” to dumping a lover via text or the Internet.
“Breaking up on Facebook is easier and quicker,” said Jessica Glinski, 18, of Ridgewood, Queens. “It’s like taking off a Band-Aid — fast and painless.”
Melvin Scott, 42, of Gowanus, Brooklyn, copped to perpetrating the trend by having torpedoed both long-term and short-term relationships via text and Facebook.
“It’s an easy way out,” Scott said, chuckling. “She was mad. It was all, ‘You’re a weak man. You’re not man enough to tell me to my face. I hate you.’ That’s when it started getting really hot and I ignored her texts.”
“I think it’s rude,” said Stella Robinson, 55, an attorney who lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
“This is something momentous emotionally, and that’s treating it as something trivial that ignores the feelings of the other person. It’s mean as well as rude.”
But Wilson Sanchez, 22, a lifeguard from Spanish Harlem, wasn’t surprised in the least that it happens.
“So much of our lives are online, why wouldn’t break-ups be too?” he said.
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