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(NPR) Interesting Old and busted: breaking up via text message. New hotness: getting dumped on Twitter   (npr.org) divider line 34
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Farknuck 2009-02-21 10:43:12 AM  
Pwned!

 
macross87 2009-02-21 10:43:14 AM  
*changes status to "How YOU doin?"*

/drtfa

 
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 10:45:40 AM  
FTA:the three stages of a Facebook breakup. First, he knew he was about to get shafted when he read messages on his girlfriend's Facebook wall. "Good luck with tonight" a friend wrote. "I hope it's for the best." Then his girlfriend changed her status to single. Then came all the daggerlike congratulatory messages. Again, on her wall.

That seems worse than a twitter/text bit to me

 
napgirl 2009-02-21 10:47:42 AM  
so much for twitterpated...

 
berylman 2009-02-21 10:48:00 AM  
6. Ringtones: For little or no money, you can send a very pointed musical message to your de-loved. "Time to Break Up" by Blink 182 and "Song for the Dumped" by Ben Folds Five come to mind.

Superghey

 
mikefinch 2009-02-21 10:48:27 AM  
If you dont care enough about the person to say it to their face then why the hell were you dating?

 
The Glass Dragon 2009-02-21 10:54:21 AM  
A friend of mine was recently broken up with over text.

It's a total pussy move IMO. Do it face-to-face, asshole. Or, if that is totally impossible due to long-distance or something, at least call.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:02:43 AM  
I did a GIS for "break up text" and dammit if someone out there didn't already have an lolcat for the occasion.

img17.imageshack.us

 
hurdboy [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:06:41 AM  
Someone cue some Greg Kihn, please.....

 
monstah04 2009-02-21 11:07:39 AM  
The last dude I dated broke up w/me by deleting me from his myspace friends.

 
Sarcastica75 [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:14:52 AM  
god damn this thread and all twits on twitter.

/I sound bitter.

 
fulminouscherub 2009-02-21 11:23:21 AM  
I recently got dumped the old fashioned way, prolonged silence. She just played possum 'til I stopped bothering her.

 
kxs401 2009-02-21 11:25:30 AM  
I knew a guy who said "the wedding is off" by farking his fiancee's sister.

I think I preferred being removed from his LJ f-list.

 
bunner [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:26:11 AM  
So the new hotness is to see how big of a douchebag you can be with the aid of technology?

Self-obsessed cowardice never looked so lame.

If you can't look somebody in the eye and break off what was supposed to be an emotionally supportive, mutual relationship, maybe you wouldn't know one if it bit you in the ass. : )

 
Wodan11 2009-02-21 11:34:11 AM  
Doctor Funkenstein: I did a GIS for "break up text" and dammit if someone out there didn't already have an lolcat for the occasion.

I was gonna say "thread over" to Farknuck saying "Pwned!" which is what this thread is all about but this lolcat takes the cake. ;)

 
brewssuds 2009-02-21 11:41:41 AM  
mikefinch: If you dont care enough about the person to say it to their face then why the hell were you dating?

So in this new age of anti-commitment and "friends with benefits", you're surprised by this???

 
citizen905 2009-02-21 11:48:33 AM  
brewssuds: So in this new age of anti-commitment and "friends with benefits", you're surprised by this???

Nonsense. The whole point of that is that you never break up because there is no promise of fidelity to renege on.

 
MurphyManifesto 2009-02-21 11:52:39 AM  
I had a buddy who, in high school, was dumped via away message.

It went something like

"hi, I'm out doin blah blah blah hit me up on my cell

and if this is G, we're over, I'm dumping you"

/names abbreviated to protect the innocent

 
WhizzoButter [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:59:49 AM  
+1 to napgirl for twitterpated ...

 
thatmanfromtexas 2009-02-21 12:06:44 PM  
This was posted on iVillage Top Ten worst Breakups;

My ex broke up with me via e-mail. We were both working at the same place and he "accidentally" sent it to the entire office. He even listed the reasons for breaking up and one of them was my "lack of sexual desire."- amforpeace

 
Biser 2009-02-21 12:40:30 PM  
I think I just pissed myself. Watch this to the end:

Link

 
Vohnkar 2009-02-21 01:09:40 PM  
www.nyc.com

Link (new window Betch)

 
thelordofcheese 2009-02-21 01:10:46 PM  
People are this disconnected with reality, with people? They seriously can't deal with real life in person? My friend was right. I have a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of bourbon.

 
Aithein 2009-02-21 01:28:06 PM  
Social Networking sites also make it a whole lot easier to find out when someone is cheating on you.

Just because YOU don't leave any evidence of it doesn't mean the other person doesn't. So a bit of advice - If you're gonna cheat and you don't want the S.O to find out, don't add the other person to any of your friends lists, and for gods sake, remember to sign out of your IM's.

Dummy.

 
napgirl 2009-02-21 02:13:03 PM  
WhizzoButter aww! i can't believe nobody else had posted it before me.

and Doctor Funkenstein that is awesome

 
dg41 [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 02:24:37 PM  
I was dumped by texting once... while we were both in the same room.... stupid crazy biatch; it was for the best. But still pretty cold.

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 02:52:31 PM  
@HunnyBunny: I'm over you. LOL.

 
Honest Bender 2009-02-21 04:13:23 PM  
Call me old fashioned, I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating.

 
castufari 2009-02-21 04:47:50 PM  
Honest Bender: Call me old fashioned, I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating.

I had one like that this morning. After a week of eating next to nothing and drinking tea I drink 2 cups of coffee. Talk about a dump.

 
Chook 2009-02-21 05:05:45 PM  
YOU CAN'T TEXT MESSAGE BREAKUP!

 
Pathman 2009-02-21 05:07:21 PM  
The Glass Dragon: A friend of mine I was recently broken up with over text.

It's a total pussy move IMO. Do it face-to-face, asshole. Or, if that is totally impossible due to long-distance or something, at least call.



:-)

 
mama's_tasty_foods 2009-02-21 09:10:10 PM  
mikefinch: If you dont care enough about the person to say it to their face then why the hell were you dating?

nobody WANTS to dump someone face to face though.

/just sayin

 
Raptor Jesus 2009-02-22 02:15:52 AM  
mama's_tasty_foods: mikefinch: If you dont care enough about the person to say it to their face then why the hell were you dating?

nobody WANTS to dump someone face to face though.

/just sayin


Too damn bad. Unless you're hundreds of miles away, you do it face to face. If you are too far away to see the person, then call them. It's the only right thing to do.

/Broke up with my ex over the phone
//We were 400 miles away, and I didn't have a car.

 
monstah04 2009-02-22 10:05:12 AM  
Raptor Jesus: mama's_tasty_foods: mikefinch: If you dont care enough about the person to say it to their face then why the hell were you dating?

nobody WANTS to dump someone face to face though.

/just sayin

Too damn bad. Unless you're hundreds of miles away, you do it face to face. If you are too far away to see the person, then call them. It's the only right thing to do.

/Broke up with my ex over the phone
//We were 400 miles away, and I didn't have a car.


Well, to be fair I have dumped a guy over the phone, simply because he turned out to be psychotic and I was afraid of dumping him in person.

/I sure know how to pick 'em

 
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