Once upon a time, breaking up with someone was a clean cut case – you break the unfortunate news on a one on one serious talk and move on with your life. As the digital age progressed the dumped broken hearted party found more and more ways of stalking the abandoning partner and trying desperate and sometimes pathetic methods of winning their hearts back (usually to no avail).
First there was the phone. Once you had a phone number, you could repeatedly place “anonymous” phone calls pretending to be someone else, or at least beg for forgiveness or whatever. Avoiding those was pretty easy: either change your number or call the police. The next technological advancement brought email and the subsequent e-love letters – and harassments. Right about the same time, and ingenious wonder came along – the cell phone. Now you can not only place “anonymous” phone calls – but also send “anonymous” text messages – primarily via 3rd party wonders such as ICQ – allowing free text messages from unknown sources for almost a decade now.
Now all this is fine and dandy – you had plenty of ways for tracking down your ex and trying weird stuff (and I’m not going to go into the whole cassette players and mix tapes) – but things started getting a whole lot creepier when a new breed of websites came along – namely Facebook.
Nowadays, if you don’t have a Facebook account you practically don’t exist – and since you probably own one – this gives your abandoned broken hearted ex a whole new platform for tracking you down, tracking your current love life and stalking you in ways never imagined before. For some – Facebook is the ultimate stalking platform and a promise you can now shadow your ex for all eternity.
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Found my long lost ex via Facebook, was nice for a while… though in hindsight, best if i left this sleeping dog lie