Fellow blogger Brie Aleida at Taut Thoughts has a great post today on how to break up correctly via MySpace or Facebook. In short, she writes:
"Today the way we maintain friendships is different. Writing letters and making phone calls have given way to Facebooking and txting. The right way to break up with your boyfriend or girlfriend has changed with time, too. In case you are ready to end things and aren’t sure how or you are just curious, here is a step-by-step way to break up with someone and be clear that it is OVER..." [Read more]
Though the post is hilarious, it does illustrate a great point. The way people start, maintain, and end relationships has changed drastically in the last few years. Today, there is a whole new set of etiquette and social normals for dealing with this kind of thing.
Before the advent of social networking sites, a fight would start over finding the proverbial lipstick stains on a shirt collar. Today the dispute becomes both pettier, and a lot more public. Forgetting to untag yourself in a Facebook picture with your ex can lead to an angry message on your public wall from your current love interest.
In the past, there'd be a box of returned records and sweaters on the front lawn. now, the baggage is electronic. Anyone can sift through your returned dirty laundry if they want.
For an example, take the (in)famous case of a wife uploading her divorce rant to YouTube. To date, the video has gotten thousands of hits. Lawyers say the video won't help her divorce case, but I imagine it was done more for catharsis than monetary gain.
Of course, for those of us happy with our relationship, this is mostly just another form of sick entertainment, akin to watching fists fly on Jerry Springer. But then, I guess that's the intent, isn't it?
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