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The Growing Popularity of SMS Break-Ups
By: Alaina Ferrier
“73% of men have ended their relationship over a text
message, phone call, or social media”
44% of women are dumped by their partner via text message
Text Messages are the
largest way to imitate a
break-up
Why break-up via Text Messaging?
To avoid the awkwardness of breaking up face-to-face.
“If you use text messaging as a main medium for
communication for most things, then you’d use it to end a relationship too”
– Dr. Samir Parikh
Nowadays,
EVERYTHING is
done by text.
Dating,
Making plans to get together,
And now, Break-Ups.
Etiquette be Damned
“If love can be expressed through sloppy text
messages, then break-up SMS’s are an excellent way to
spilt up” – Kashmira Lad
There exists and unwritten rule that
states that a certain degree of respect should be given to
other person’s feelings.
As, “breaking it off over SMS may end up causing more harm and hurt”
Yet, People nowadays are making break-ups that little bit easier by using texts –
Adam Cable
Avoidant individuals are people who have a
lesser desire to be around people
“Avoidant individuals are more likely to accept dumping someone and being dumped
via text”
Everyone seems so engulfed in technology
Does that make us all avoidant?
People are more commonly breaking
up over SMS
Eventually it won’t be such a big deal
References
www.femailfirst.co.uk/relationships/break-up-324723.html - Lucy Walton
www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2012/11/13/breaking-up-is-easy-to-doif-you-have-a-smartphone.html - Dr. Benjamin Le
www.buzzle.com/articles/break-up-sms-break-up-text-messages.html - Kashmira Lad
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2573879/Youre-breaking-TEXT-Don’t-worry-youre-not-one-digitally-dumped-splits-happen-SMS-html - Deni Kirkova
www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/brunch-stories/why-breaking-up-over-an-sms-is-now-so-commonplace/article1-1091824.aspx - Shreya Sethurman
Parade.condenast.com/169215/stevenpetrow/digital-etiquette-is-it-ever-ok-to-break-up-by-text-message/ - Steven Petrow
All photos have Creative Commons Licenses from Flickr