How people use Facebook for breaking up
The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media
It happens more often than you might think. Perhaps one day your partner changes the relationship status on Facebook, does this mean anything? It may be clear message that it’s over. Leslie did one day checked her Facebook profile to find out she was single. Her now ex-boyfriend met somebody else and she learned this through the usual news feed.
Professor Ilana Gershon of Indiana University Bloomington has recently published The Breakup 2.0, a study of how people use new media to end relationships. Leslie was one of 72 people interviewed for the book.
“Almost everyone still thinks that people should breakup face-to-face,” Gershon said. “The only people I interviewed who thought that face-to-face was less than ideal would imagine that they were the ones doing the breaking up, not that they were being dumped.” Continue Reading »
