However, now when you break up the whole world knows once you`ve made your relationship ‘Facebook official.` Everybody knows there`s trouble when you change your status from in a relationship to "it`s complicated." After that, it`s just a hop, skip and a week away from the dreaded break up status line that shows up on everybody`s mini-feeds.
Before all you had to worry about was when your ex was going to see somebody. Now, you have to worry about him or her showing off pictures on their facebook and twitter accounts of hot dates or flirty wall messages that end up on their wall late at night and of course, the tragic blocking or deleting of your profile. It sucks how dependent we have become on social media networks.
To prevent yourself from going through a digital and mental breakdown, you must refrain from talking about your feelings over online chat sessions or wall messages. With just a single tweet, you can be involved in an online war with your ex.
If any of your friends on Facebook ask you over your wall if you are doing okay, erase those messages immediately. Any real friend knows that the last thing you want is for everybody to see you`ve broken up with someone over Facebook and how you`re hurting over it.
Also, delete your ex from Facebook. You don`t have to do anything drastic and block them if you don`t want to, but it`s really the only way to get peace of mind.