Social Media Makes It Difficult to Break the Ties After Divorce

In the recent past, when a couple would divorce, it was easy for the ex-spouses to avoid each other’s friends.  With new technology, including social media websites, breaking the ties after divorce has become even harder.

In the movie, He’s Just Not That Into You, there is a scene where Drew Barrymore’s character complains about the numerous technological ways she is being rebuffed by potential suitors – email, texts and MySpace.  She comments that, “it’s exhausting.”

The problem that couples face now when they divorce is the connections they still have on social media websites, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.  These couples used to only see these friends at social gatherings, but not now they see them 24 hours a day on these social networking sites. 

In an article provided by the New York Times News Service, titled, “Prolonging the Heartache: Digital Ties that Bind Make Breakups More Difficult,” it talks about the fact that breakups are being redefined.  The article describes this situation by stating, “where once a spurned lover could use scissors to cut an ex out of the picture, digital images of the smiling couple in happier days abound on the Web and are difficult to delete.”

The advice for couples who have recently divorced – change their passwords, stop posting on social media websites and consider getting a new email address.

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