original print : 2/26/08
February is at its end and thus dumping season is on.
All the people that were too chicken to get rid of their insignificant other before V-day are now dumping all the excess baggage. Networking sites and more are all filled with ammunition in the war to save face that is being fought in the hearts of many.
For the net savvy there are many options in going about showing the world how butt-hurt you are over being dispatched by your sweetie. For those that have done the dispatching and are looking for the most cold-hearted way to call it quits since the text message break up, the options are even greater.
When your heart is broken, you might be in such a weak emotional state that you are under the delusion that people on the internet care about your problems.This is a mistake; sometimes a grave mistake.
Everything you post about how horrible your ex was will no doubt be used as ammunition against you later to prove what a weak idiot you made yourself out to be.
When we're upset, sometimes we as human beings, have the tendency to overstate things. What you might not see through your blood-shot teary eyes is, that if you make your ex-lover seem like a filthy Lothario, everyone on your favorite forum will now think that you are a big old box of AIDS.
The longer the relationship, the more horrible an idea it is to bad mouth your ex, especially if you two happen to post on the same forum. This is especially true if you met your ex on that forum. Not only did you make an internet hook up into a relationship ( which should be a cardinal sin), you are now going to automatically be the bad guy for trying to pit the entire site on your lost love.
Bow out gracefully.
If you share the same cyber spaces spare everyone the spectacle and just take a break. You don't need to put a message on his/her Facebook wall to broadcast to the world that they are scum.
If someone is in a person's top 10, not only do they already know said person is scum, but they are pretty okay with it. After all is said and done with, you only made yourself the fool for putting your own business out there.
Not only that, but when you tell the internet terrible things about a person, nothing is stopping them from doing the same to you.
If a picture has been posted on the net once, it's there forever.
FOREVER.
Those cell phone pics you let him take when you both got drunk. Forever.
The picture she took of you wearing her panties during that fit of post coital giddiness.
Forever.
How many of us have come across a video of a random college strip shaking her money maker in front of the camera but not before she tells her beau "this is only for you , don't show anyone else , You promise right?" WRONG.
So before you make that entry on Dontdatehimgirl.com, or post her nudes in the revenge section of your favorite image boards, think about what you're doing.
The lulz will run dry, and in the end you'll only be left with your own bitterness about the situation.
Not to mention, now all virtual foot prints will point to you being a completely un-datable psychopath.
© Copyright 2009 Observer
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment