#16: Stay Away from Social Media Stalking After a Breakup
Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak
Trina Leckie
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
With social media, you can pretty much keep tabs on what anyone is doing these days...including who they are with, and where they are hanging out. When it comes to breakups, people have a hard time letting go and can almost become addicted to checking up on their exes online.
Here's why you need to stay away from social media stalking and 8 things you DEFINITELY should NOT be doing...
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| 0:00.0 | Broken-hearted, feeling like the world is over, convinced you'll never meet anyone else. |
| 0:07.0 | Trina's breakup boost will help heal your heart and get you back in the dating saddle. |
| 0:14.4 | She'll give you straightforward opinions and advice for your love life. |
| 0:20.3 | The topic of today's episode is, stay away from social media stalking after a breakup. |
| 0:27.0 | Gosh, the world has changed so much. |
| 0:30.0 | I mean back in the day you broke up with someone and that was that. |
| 0:34.0 | No one had cell phones, there was no texting, there was no email, and definitely no social media. |
| 0:41.0 | It was the easiest way to be completely done with someone and chances |
| 0:45.8 | are unless you lived in a small town you wouldn't have to see them ever again. |
| 0:51.2 | Now not keeping tabs on your X or being able to easily find out what they're up to is unusual. |
| 0:57.0 | This doesn't mean you actually admit that you do this, but the fact of the matter is most people do, at least in the first few months following the breakup. |
| 1:06.0 | Actually, no, change that to several months. |
| 1:09.0 | Even if you don't care about them anymore, curiosity tends to take over and rear its ugly head. |
| 1:16.3 | Then there's also the finding out who they've started dating and keeping tabs on those people |
| 1:20.1 | too. |
| 1:21.6 | The only protection with this is if they have everything on tight lockdown. |
| 1:26.1 | But there always seems to be the ones who still have not realized you probably shouldn't |
| 1:29.6 | keep your Facebook open for the world to see due to privacy issues. You know that thing called |
| 1:34.7 | identity theft? So yeah if you find yourself checking up on your ex or their new |
| 1:40.8 | friends or family members multiple times throughout the day or |
| 1:46.0 | week is time to chill on that. But for many it kind of becomes an addiction |
| 1:51.2 | only they don't have a 12-step program for this yet. |
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