Recently, the New York times ran a story about the break up of a twenty year marriage. All breakups are hard whether they are high school relationships, marriages, or friendships. Back in the day when a relationship would end, the two parties would give back personal items and then decide who kept the stuff that they bought together. Who gets the house? The car? The dog? Which coffee mugs are mine? That kind of stuff. But today it's so much different and I would argue, so much harder.
Not only do you have to give back and divide all the stuff, but with social media, your are forced to have continued contact with the other person though the variety of connections we now forge online. Yes you can block people, but Timehop is tricky. Lots of memories will forever pop up in your feed, reminding you of that relationship that was lost, and this, according to psychologists, is not healthy and makes it near impossible to move on from fail love.
Connection is great, sharing pictures is awesome, and yes we do need to see the 1,000th selfie you took today, but how can anyone make it past lost love or lost friendships if every time we turn to our phone, it's staring right back at us?
Thoughts?