Emily Ann
[dropcap type="circle" color="#ffffff" background="#050000"]L[/dropcap]ets face it, break ups suck. And no matter how bad the reasons were for the breakup, you’re still going to miss certain things about the other person. Those things made you fall for the person to begin with, remember?
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Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like, can make getting over all those little things you loved about the person, even that much more difficult. [quote align="center" color="#F01251"]"The other person is just one click away, there’s almost this continual contact which is very compelling".[/quote] However, in order to successfully get over an ex, it is important you make a commitment to yourself not to have ANY contact with the person for a full 30 days following your breakup. But in our contemporary age of smart phones, emails, and status updates this can be particularly difficult to do. Thus, here are my MUST DO tips to help ensure you successfully get over your break up and move on from your ex.
• Begin with your email and delete all messages that you’ve received from his during the course of your relationship.
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• Completely remove his profile from all your social media circles. Remove him from your list of “friends” on Facebook, and un-follow him on Twitter, Instagram, Spotify or any other applicable social media platform the two of you used to communicate or share thoughts and/or memories.
• In the first few weeks following a breakup, it can be helpful to avoid using Facebook all together.
• If this is not realistic to you and you find yourself continually visiting his page, block access to his profile completely. This will definitely help you to move on, and prevent you from coming across any photos or status updates that could potentially be painful or upsetting to see or read.
• Take all the photos from your relationship off your profile. Save the photos to a folder on your computer then transfer the folder to a flash drive. Remove the photos from your hard drive and place the flash drive somewhere safe. Later, you may return to these memories and sift through them. Decide what to keep and what to delete.
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• Forward all photos of him or the two of you together off your phone and save them to the flash drive you’ve created that contains the memories of your relationship. Delete the originals from your phone.
• Delete his contact information from your phone to ensure you don’t find yourself texting him on a particularly drunken, lonely night. In addition, delete your call log and any text messages or photo downloads you’ve sent to one another in the past.
• If your ex is still contacting you and making it difficult to move on, you also have the option of blocking his phone number all together through your online profile with your cell phone carrier. This is especially helpful when your ex is simply trying to be a dick and screw with your emotions.
CONCLUSION
In sum, getting over an ex or a particularly difficult breakup can be especially difficult given the prolific nature of social media today. It's important to move forward, but not to completely destroy every memory from your failed relationship. At some point in time, you'll be able to look back on those moments in time, appreciate the good times for what they were, and be reminded of the lessons you learned that made you become the person you are.
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How to successfully get over a break up in the age of social media by Emily Croushore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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