Has your ex-partner conveyed all personal
details of your breakup to common friends on Facebook, leaving you embarrassed?
Well, you are not alone.
According to new research, not just romance but breakup updates going viral
among common friends are complicating relationships among teenagers.
"We tend to talk about how Facebook, Twitter and social media create
relationships, but how about when you need to get rid of someone," asked
study researcher Anabel Quan-Haase, a sociologist at University of Western
Ontario in Canada.
To understand how social media impacts breakups, Quan-Haase and her team spoke
to 107 young people who had broken up with their partners.
They found that those who initiated a breakup tended to be less troubled by
social media issues than those who were dumped.
Nearly 62 percent of them said they spent a lot of time re-analysing wall posts
and messages from their ex.
According to them, updating their relationship on Facebook caused a flurry of
reactions from family and friends.
Such messages often reopened breakup wounds.
"Most say they do not want to go to their ex's profile, but at the end of
the day, the temptation is so high that they are constantly going back,"
Quan-Haase noted.
Some felt that the ex was flaunting his or her newly single status whereas the
observer was trying to keep a low profile.
She shared her findings at the 109th annual American Sociological Association
meeting in Chicago recently.
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